My advisor, Steve Strogatz, and I wrote an op-ed piece that was in this Sunday’s NYT, entitled A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate Universe. It’s about baseball, probability and Joe DiMaggio. We had a lot of fun writing it and I hope you enjoy it.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
The Origins of Gotham
I was perusing through a list of the 98 nicknames of New York City, when I realized that I didn’t know the origin of the nickname ‘Gotham’ for New York. Apparently, it was nicknamed by Washington Irving after the city of Gotham in England. The British Gotham (which is actually pronounced Goatum), is noted for [...]
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