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The best writing on mathematics 2016 / Mircea Pitici, editor.
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2017.
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Mathematics.
ISBN:
9780691175294 (pbk.) :
0691175292 (pbk.)
Description:
xxii, 377 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Contents:
Introduction / Mircea Pitici -- Mathematics and teaching / Hyman Bass -- In defense of pure mathematics / Daniel S. Silver -- G.H. Hardy: mathematical biologist / Hannah Elizabeth Christenson and Stephan Ramon Garcia -- The reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics / Derek Abbott -- Stacking wine bottles revisited / Burkard Polster -- The way the billiard ball bounces / Joshua Bowman -- The intersection game / Burkhard Polster -- Tonight! Epic math battles: counting vs. matching / Jennifer J. Quinn -- Mathematicians chase moonshine's shadow / Erica Klarreich -- The impenetrable proof / Davide Castelvecchi -- A proof that some spaces can't be cut / Kevin Hartnett -- Einstein's first proof / Steven Strogatz -- Why string theory still offers hope we can unify physics / Brian Greene -- The pioneering role of the Sierpinski Gasket / Tanya Khovanova, Eric Nie, and Alok Puranik -- Fractals as photographs / Marc Frantz -- Math at the Met / Joseph Dauben and Marjorie Senechal -- Common sense about the common core / Alan H. Schoenfeld -- Explaining your math: unnecessary at best, encumbering at worst / Katharine Beals and Barry Garelick -- Teaching applied mathematics / David Acheson, Peter R. Turner, Gilbert Strang, and Rachel Levy -- Circular reasoning: who first proved that C divided by d is a constant? / David Richeson -- A medieval mystery : Nicole Oresme's concept of curvitas / Isabel M. Serrano and Bogdan D. Suceavă -- The myth of Leibniz's proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus / Viktor Blåsjö -- The spirograph and mathematical models from Nineteenth-Century Germany / Amy Shell-Gellasch -- What does "depth" mean in mathematics? / John Stillwell -- Finding errors in big data / Marco Puts, Piet Daas, and Ton De Waal -- Programs and probability / Brian Hayes -- Lottery perception / Jorge Almeida -- Why acknowledging uncertainty can make you a better scientist / Andrew Gelman -- For want of a nail: why unnecessarily long tests may be impeding the progress of western civilization / Howard Wainer and Richard Feinberg -- How to write a general interest mathematics book / Ian Stewart.
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An anthology of the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world, featuring promising new voices as well as some of the foremost names in mathematics.
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