Math Geekery
Economist Steven Levitt discovered a connection between legalized abortion and a reduced crime rate. He writes about this and more in his new book Freakonomics, link from Arts and Letters Daily, a collection of links from The Chronicle of Higher Education, recommended by my friend Blogenheimer.
Freakonomics is not published yet, but the queue for the first copy from our library was already fifteen by the time I put in a request. I’m not sure my math-geek husband G. Grod is going to be able to wait that long. He just finished Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace, and is in the midst of Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel by Rebecca Goldstein, whose first novel was The Mind-Body Problem, a book I very much enjoyed. It centers on a philosophy student who marries a math prodigy, as Goldstein did herself.