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The best writing on mathematics. 2017 /
"The year's finest mathematics writing from around the worldThis 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 2017 makes a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.