The best writing on mathematics 2015 /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pitici, Mircea, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Mathematics.
Mathématiques.
mathematics.
applied mathematics.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
MATHEMATICS / General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Mircea Pitici
  • A dusty discipline / Michael J. Barany and Donald MacKenzie
  • How puzzles made us human / Pradeep Mutalik
  • Let the games continue / Colm Mulcahy and Dana Richards
  • Challenging magic squares for magicians / Arthur T. Benjamin and Ethan J. Brown
  • Candy Crush's puzzling mathematics / Toby Walsh
  • Chaos on the billiard table / Marianne Freiberger
  • Juggling with numbers / Erik R. Tou
  • The quest for randomness / Scott Aaronson
  • Synthetic biology, real mathematics / Dana Mackenzie
  • At the far ends of a new universal law / Natalie Wolchover
  • Twisted math and beautiful geometry / Eli Maor and Eugen Jost
  • Kenichi Miura's water wheel, or, The dance of the shapes of constant width / Burkard Polster
  • Dürer: disguise, distance, disagreements, and diagonals! / Annalisa Crannell, Marc Frantz, and Fumiko Futamura
  • The quaternion group as a symmetry group / Vi Hart and Henry Segerman
  • The Steiner-Lehmus angle-bisector theorem / John Conway and Alex Ryba
  • Key ideas and memorability in proof / Gila Hanna and John Mason
  • The future of high school mathematics / Jim Fey, Sol Garfunkel, Diane Briars, Andy Isaacs, Henry Pollak, Eric Robinson, Richard Scheaffer, Alan Schoenfeld, Cathy Seeley, Dan Teague, and Zalman Usiskin
  • Demystifying the math myth: analyzing the contributing factors for the achievement gap between Chinese and U.S. students / Guili Zhang and Miguel A. Padilla
  • The pigeonhole principle, two centuries before Dirichlet / Benoît Rittaud and Albrecht Heeffer
  • A prehistory of Nim / Lisa Rougetet
  • Gödel, Gentzen, Goodstein: the magic sound of a G-string / Jan von Plato
  • Global and local / James Franklin
  • Mathematical beauty, understanding, and discovery / Carlo Cellucci
  • A guide for the perplexed: what mathematicians need to know to understand philosophers of mathematics / Mark Balaguer
  • Writing about math for the perplexed and the traumatized / Steven Strogatz
  • Is big data enough? A reflection on the changing role of mathematics in applications / Domenico Napoletani, Marco Panza, and Daniele C. Struppa
  • The statistical crisis in science / Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken
  • Statistics and the Ontario Lottery retailer scandal / Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
  • Never say never / David J. Hand.

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