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The best writing on mathematics 2016 /

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, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Mircea Pitici
  • Mathematics and teaching / Hyman Bass
  • In defense of pure mathematics / Daniel S. Silver
  • G.H. Hardy : mathematical biologist / Hannah Elizabeth Christenson & Stephan Ramon Garcia
  • The reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics / Derek Abbott
  • Stacking wine bottles revisited / Burkard Polster
  • The way the billiard ball bounces / Joshua Bowman
  • The intersection game / Burkard Polster
  • Tonight! Epic math battles : counting vs. matching / Jennifer J. Quinn
  • Mathematicians chase moonshine's shadow / Erica Klarreich
  • The impenetrable proof / Davide Castelvecchi
  • A proof that some spaces can't be cut / Kevin Hartnett
  • Einstein's first proof / Steven Strogatz
  • Why string theory still offers hope we can unify physics / Brian Greene
  • The pioneering role of the Sierpinski gasket / Tanya Khovanova, Eric Nie, & Alok Puranik
  • Fractals as photographs / Marc Frantz
  • Math at the Met / Joseph Dauben & Marjorie Senechal
  • Common sense about the common core / Alan H. Schoenfeld
  • Explaining your math : unnecessary at best, encumbering at worst / Katharine Beals & Barry Garelick
  • Teaching applied mathematics / David Acheson, Peter R. Turner, Gilbert Strang, & Rachel Levy
  • Circular reasoning : who first proved that C divided by d Is a constant? / David Richeson
  • A medieval mystery : Nicole Oresme's concept of curvitas / Isabel M. Serrano & Bogdan D. Suceava
  • The myth of Leibniz's proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus / Viktor Blasjo
  • The Spirograph and mathematical models from nineteenth-century Germany / Amy Shell-Gellasch
  • What does "depth" mean in mathematics? / John Stillwell
  • Finding errors in big data / Marco Puts, Piet Daas, & Ton de Waal
  • Programs and probability / Brian Hayes
  • Lottery perception / Jorge Almeida
  • Why acknowledging uncertainty can make you a better scientist / Andrew Gelman
  • For want of a nail : why unnecessarily long tests may be impeding the progress of western civilization / Howard Wainer & Richard Feinberg
  • How to write a general interest mathematics book / Ian Stewart.