TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitici,Mircea
TI  - The best writing on mathematics
SN  - 0691182760
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Popular works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; "Notable writings": pages 227-245; 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
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  -