TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitici,Mircea
TI  - The best writing on mathematics
SN  - 9780691178639
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Mathematics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Mathematical products; Philip J. Davis --; The largest known prime number; Evelyn Lamb --; A unified theory of randomness; Kevin Hartnett --; An "infinitely rich" mathematician turns 100; Siobhan Roberts --; Inverse Yogiisms; Lloyd N. Trefethen --; Ramanujan in bronze; Gerald L. Alexanderson, with contributions from Leonard F. Klosinski --; Creating symmetric fractals; Larry Riddle --; Projective geometry in the moon tilt illusion; Marc Frantz --; Girih for domes: analysis of three Iranian domes; Mohammadhossein Kasraei, Yahta Nourian, and Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad --; Why kids should use their fingers in math class; Jo Boaler and Lang Chen --; Threshold concepts and undergraduate mathematics teaching; Sinéad Breen and Ann O'Shea --; Rising above a cause-and-effect stance in mathematics education research; John Mason --; How to find the logarithm of any number using nothing but a piece of string; Viktor Blâsjö --; Rendering Pacioli's Rhombicuboctahedron; Carlo H. Séquin and Raymond Shiau --; Who would have won the Fields Medal 150 years ago?; Jeremy Gray --; Paradoxes, contradictions, and the limits of science; Noson S. Yanofsky --; Stairway to heaven: the abstract method and levels of abstraction in mathematics; Jean-Pierre Marquis --; Are our brains Bayesian?; Robert Bain --; Great expectations: the past, present, and future of prediction; Graham Southorn
N2  - 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
ER  -