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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2015/06/11/further-reading-18/
- Published: 2015-06-11T18:36:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-26T18:42:19.000Z
- Description: What is code? One of the oldest problems in combinatorics has been solved. Calculate your risk of dying in the next 5 years. The mathematical legacy of John Nash. The Atlantic has republished Host by David Foster Wallace. Karl Ove Knausgaard on Anders Breivik. Profile of Marc Andreessen. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

[What is code?](http://t.co/WPvXl3zYBZ?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) If the question puts you off you should read this excellent interactive article.

[Our Man in Tehran by Thomas Erdbrink](http://t.co/3kUIE2qgBJ?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) has won the award for best Dutch television program.

[One of the oldest problems in combinatorics](https://t.co/R6JLAO4WlA?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) has just been solved.

[Calculate your risk of dying in the next 5 years](http://t.co/qbfuOOw6fQ?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) (based on data from the UK Biobank).

Excellent [farewell essay by Tania Branigan](http://t.co/7K6m4FGhWz?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) after 7 years of covering China for The Guardian.

[Alex Bellos on the mathematical legacy of John Nash.](http://t.co/r5A5EzjWIZ?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) I was sad to to learn that [John Nash and his wife died in a taxi crash in New Jersey on 23 May](http://t.co/smBHNoh3x3?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

The Atlantic has republished [Host by David Foster Wallace](http://t.co/UH7BYH6V11?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), which first ran in April 2005, with restyled annotations.

[The Inexplicable. Inside the mind of a mass killer.](http://t.co/4uD83pLQcy?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Karl Ove Knausgaard on Anders Breivik.

[Excellent article](http://t.co/Ylk5LCrp1H?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) about the US shale revolution.

[New Yorker profile of Marc Andreessen.](http://t.co/rZ09b5Pjmy?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Long read, but worth the time.