{"id":181,"date":"2010-10-08T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.com\/site\/fywscrypto\/?p=181"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:16:01","slug":"resources-from-october-5th-unsolved-mysteries-probability-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/2010\/10\/08\/resources-from-october-5th-unsolved-mysteries-probability-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources from October 5th &#8211; Unsolved Mysteries, Probability Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60445767@N00\/2466272019\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190\" src=\"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/files\/2010\/10\/2466272019_f888bc3491_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Unsolved Mysteries<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the Wired Magazine article on Kryptos: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/magazine\/17-05\/ff_kryptos\">Mission Impossible: The Code Even the CIA Can&#8217;t Crack<\/a>,&#8221; Steven Levy, April 2009.<\/li>\n<li>James Sanborn has another interesting cryptography sculpture call the Cyrillic Projector. Below you can see a video project one of my former students did on this second sculpture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voynich_manuscript\">Wikipedia entry on the Voynich Manuscript<\/a> is a good introduction to its weirdness and the various attempts over the years to figure it out. Researchers Daniel and Sarah Drucker have posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/3e\/sets\/72157600089509882\/\">hi-res photos of the manuscript<\/a> on Flickr, too.<\/li>\n<li>I mentioned Andrew Wiles&#8217; proof of Fermat&#8217;s Last Theorem in class as an example of a mathematical problem that had gone unsolved for hundreds of years. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/proof\/wiles.html\">a nice interview with Wiles about his work<\/a> from PBS NOVA Online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Probability and Combinatorics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you find confusing the probability and counting problems we&#8217;ve seen lately, you might watch a few Khan Academy videos on these topics. You might start with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/video\/probability--part-1?playlist=Probability\">the first video in Khan&#8217;s series on probability<\/a>, then watch a few of the subsequent videos. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/?video=probability--part-1#Probability\">a list of all his videos on probability<\/a>. The ones on permutations and combinations are particularly relevant to this course. I&#8217;ve embedded them below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Image: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60445767@N00\/2466272019\/\">Antipodes<\/a>&#8221; by Flickr user Fotomoe, Creative Commons licensed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsolved Mysteries Here&#8217;s the Wired Magazine article on Kryptos: &#8220;Mission Impossible: The Code Even the CIA Can&#8217;t Crack,&#8221; Steven Levy, April 2009. James Sanborn has another interesting cryptography sculpture call the Cyrillic Projector. Below you can see a video project one of my former students did on this second sculpture. The Wikipedia entry on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}