The best writing on mathematics. 2017 /
The best writing on mathematics. 2017 /
Mircea Pitici, editor.
- xvi, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Mathematical products / The largest known prime number / A unified theory of randomness / An "infinitely rich" mathematician turns 100 / Inverse Yogiisms / Ramanujan in bronze / Creating symmetric fractals / Projective geometry in the moon tilt illusion / Girih for domes: analysis of three Iranian domes / Why kids should use their fingers in math class / Threshold concepts and undergraduate mathematics teaching / Rising above a cause-and-effect stance in mathematics education research / How to find the logarithm of any number using nothing but a piece of string / Rendering Pacioli's Rhombicuboctahedron / Who would have won the Fields Medal 150 years ago? / Paradoxes, contradictions, and the limits of science / Stairway to heaven: the abstract method and levels of abstraction in mathematics / Are our brains Bayesian? / Great expectations: the past, present, and future of prediction / Philip J. Davis -- Evelyn Lamb -- Kevin Hartnett -- Siobhan Roberts -- Lloyd N. Trefethen -- Gerald L. Alexanderson, with contributions from Leonard F. Klosinski -- Larry Riddle -- Marc Frantz -- Mohammadhossein Kasraei, Yahta Nourian, and Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad -- Jo Boaler and Lang Chen -- Sinéad Breen and Ann O'Shea -- John Mason -- Viktor Blâsjö -- Carlo H. Séquin and Raymond Shiau -- Jeremy Gray -- Noson S. Yanofsky -- Jean-Pierre Marquis -- Robert Bain -- Graham Southorn.
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.
9780691178639 0691178631
Mathematics.
Includes bibliographical references.
Mathematical products / The largest known prime number / A unified theory of randomness / An "infinitely rich" mathematician turns 100 / Inverse Yogiisms / Ramanujan in bronze / Creating symmetric fractals / Projective geometry in the moon tilt illusion / Girih for domes: analysis of three Iranian domes / Why kids should use their fingers in math class / Threshold concepts and undergraduate mathematics teaching / Rising above a cause-and-effect stance in mathematics education research / How to find the logarithm of any number using nothing but a piece of string / Rendering Pacioli's Rhombicuboctahedron / Who would have won the Fields Medal 150 years ago? / Paradoxes, contradictions, and the limits of science / Stairway to heaven: the abstract method and levels of abstraction in mathematics / Are our brains Bayesian? / Great expectations: the past, present, and future of prediction / Philip J. Davis -- Evelyn Lamb -- Kevin Hartnett -- Siobhan Roberts -- Lloyd N. Trefethen -- Gerald L. Alexanderson, with contributions from Leonard F. Klosinski -- Larry Riddle -- Marc Frantz -- Mohammadhossein Kasraei, Yahta Nourian, and Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad -- Jo Boaler and Lang Chen -- Sinéad Breen and Ann O'Shea -- John Mason -- Viktor Blâsjö -- Carlo H. Séquin and Raymond Shiau -- Jeremy Gray -- Noson S. Yanofsky -- Jean-Pierre Marquis -- Robert Bain -- Graham Southorn.
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.
9780691178639 0691178631
Mathematics.