The best writing on mathematics, 2014 /

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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 2014 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere el...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pitici, Mircea, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Best Writing on Mathematics.
Temas:
Mathematics.
Mathematics
Mathématiques.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
MATHEMATICS > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mathematics and the good life / Stephen Pollard
  • The rise of big data : how it's changing the way we think about the world / Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Shon̈berger
  • Conway's wizards / Tanya Khovanova
  • On unsettleable arithmetical problems / John H. Conway
  • Crinkly curves / Brian Hayes
  • Why do we perceive logarithmically? / Lav R. Varshney and John Z. Sun
  • The music of math games / Keith Devlin
  • The fundamental theorem of algebra for artists / Bahman Kalantari and Bruce Torrence
  • The arts--digitized, quantified, and analyzed / Nicole Lazar
  • On the number of Klein bottle types / Carlo H. Séquin
  • Adventures in mathematical knitting / Sarah-Marie Belcastro
  • The mathematics of fountain design : a multiple-centers activity / Marshall Gordon
  • Food for (mathematical) thought / Penelope Dunham
  • Wondering about wonder in mathematics / Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis
  • The lesson of grace in teaching / Francis Edward Su
  • Generic proving : reflections on scope and method / Uri Leron and Orit Zaslavsky
  • Extreme proofs I : the irrationality of √2 / John H. Conway and Joseph Shipman
  • Stuck in the middle : Cauchy's intermediate value theorem and the history of analytic rigor / Michael J. Barany
  • Plato, Poincaré, and the enchanted dodecahedron : is the universe shaped like the Poincaré homology sphere? / Lawrence Brenton
  • Computing with real numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and beyond / Mark Braverman
  • Chaos at fifty / Adilson E. Motter and David K. Campbell
  • Twenty-five analogies for explaining statistical concepts / Roberto Behar, Pere Grima, and Lluís Marco-Almagro
  • College admissions and the stability of marriage / David Gale and Lloyd S. Shapley
  • The beauty of bounded gaps / Jordan Ellenberg.

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