The best writing on mathematics. 2018 /
The best writing on mathematics. 2018 /
Mircea Pitici, editor.
- xvii, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references. "Notable writings": pages 227-245.
Mathematics for human flourishing / How to play mathematics / Beauty is not all there is to aesthetics in mathematics / The science of brute force / Computational thinking in science / Quantum questions inspire new math / Tangled tangles / The bizarre world of nontransitive dice: games for two or more players / The bingo paradox / The sleeping beauty controversy / Wigner's "unreasonable effectiveness" in context / Learning and teaching interdiscplinary modeling / Six essential questions for problem solving / What does active learning mean for mathematicians? / Written in stone: the world's first trigonometry revealed in an ancient Bablyonian tablet / Quadrivium: the structure of mathematics as described in Isidor of Seville's etymologies / The world war II origins of mathematics awareness / The writing mathematician / Francis Edward Su -- Margaret Wertheim -- Robert S.D. Thomas -- Marjin J.H. Heule and Oliver Kullimann -- Peter J. Denning -- Robbert Dijkgraaf -- Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Adam Hesterberg, Quanquan Liu, Ron Taylor and Ryuhei Uehara -- James Grime -- Arthur Benjamin, Joseph Kisenwether and Ben Weiss -- Peter Winkler -- Jose Ferreiros -- Chris Arney -- Nancy Emerson Kress -- Benjamin Braun, Priscilla Bremser, Art M. Duval, Elise Lockwood and Diane White -- Daniel Mansfield and N.J. Wildberger -- Isabel M. Serrano, Lucy H. Odom and BogdanD. Suceava -- Michael J. Barany -- Caroline Yoon.
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.
0691182760 9780691182766
Mathematics--Popular works.
Includes bibliographical references. "Notable writings": pages 227-245.
Mathematics for human flourishing / How to play mathematics / Beauty is not all there is to aesthetics in mathematics / The science of brute force / Computational thinking in science / Quantum questions inspire new math / Tangled tangles / The bizarre world of nontransitive dice: games for two or more players / The bingo paradox / The sleeping beauty controversy / Wigner's "unreasonable effectiveness" in context / Learning and teaching interdiscplinary modeling / Six essential questions for problem solving / What does active learning mean for mathematicians? / Written in stone: the world's first trigonometry revealed in an ancient Bablyonian tablet / Quadrivium: the structure of mathematics as described in Isidor of Seville's etymologies / The world war II origins of mathematics awareness / The writing mathematician / Francis Edward Su -- Margaret Wertheim -- Robert S.D. Thomas -- Marjin J.H. Heule and Oliver Kullimann -- Peter J. Denning -- Robbert Dijkgraaf -- Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Adam Hesterberg, Quanquan Liu, Ron Taylor and Ryuhei Uehara -- James Grime -- Arthur Benjamin, Joseph Kisenwether and Ben Weiss -- Peter Winkler -- Jose Ferreiros -- Chris Arney -- Nancy Emerson Kress -- Benjamin Braun, Priscilla Bremser, Art M. Duval, Elise Lockwood and Diane White -- Daniel Mansfield and N.J. Wildberger -- Isabel M. Serrano, Lucy H. Odom and BogdanD. Suceava -- Michael J. Barany -- Caroline Yoon.
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.
0691182760 9780691182766
Mathematics--Popular works.