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The best writing on mathematics. 2018 / Mircea Pitici, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xvii, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691182760
  • 9780691182766
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Contents:
Mathematics for human flourishing / Francis Edward Su -- How to play mathematics / Margaret Wertheim -- Beauty is not all there is to aesthetics in mathematics / Robert S.D. Thomas -- The science of brute force / Marjin J.H. Heule and Oliver Kullimann -- Computational thinking in science / Peter J. Denning -- Quantum questions inspire new math / Robbert Dijkgraaf -- Tangled tangles / Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Adam Hesterberg, Quanquan Liu, Ron Taylor and Ryuhei Uehara -- The bizarre world of nontransitive dice: games for two or more players / James Grime -- The bingo paradox / Arthur Benjamin, Joseph Kisenwether and Ben Weiss -- The sleeping beauty controversy / Peter Winkler -- Wigner's "unreasonable effectiveness" in context / Jose Ferreiros -- Learning and teaching interdiscplinary modeling / Chris Arney -- Six essential questions for problem solving / Nancy Emerson Kress -- What does active learning mean for mathematicians? / Benjamin Braun, Priscilla Bremser, Art M. Duval, Elise Lockwood and Diane White -- Written in stone: the world's first trigonometry revealed in an ancient Bablyonian tablet / Daniel Mansfield and N.J. Wildberger -- Quadrivium: the structure of mathematics as described in Isidor of Seville's etymologies / Isabel M. Serrano, Lucy H. Odom and BogdanD. Suceava -- The world war II origins of mathematics awareness / Michael J. Barany -- The writing mathematician / Caroline Yoon.
Summary: 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The year's finest mathematical writing from around the world

This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018 makes available to a wide audience many pieces not easily found anywhere else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These essays delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights into its nature, meaning, and practice--and taking readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates.

James Grime shows how to build subtly mischievous dice for playing slightly unfair games and Michael Barany traces how our appreciation of the societal importance of mathematics has developed since World War II. In other essays, Francis Su extolls the inherent values of learning, doing, and sharing mathematics, and Margaret Wertheim takes us on a mathematical exploration of the mind and the world--with glimpses at science, philosophy, music, art, and even crocheting. And there's much, much more.

In addition to presenting the year's most memorable math writing, this must-have anthology includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography of other notable pieces on mathematics.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in where math has taken us--and where it is headed.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Notable writings": pages 227-245.

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.

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

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