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The best writing on mathematics. 2020 /

The year's finest mathematical writing from around the world. 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 2020 makes avai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pitici, Mircea, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:The best writing in mathematics ; 11
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Outsmarting a virus with math
  • Uncertainty
  • The inescapable casino
  • Resolving the fuel economy singularity
  • The median voter theorem : why politicians move to the center
  • The math that takes Newton into the quantum world
  • Decades-old computer science conjecture solved in two pages
  • The three-body problem
  • The intrigues and delights of Kleinian and quasi-Fuchsian limit sets
  • Mathematical treasures from Sid Sackson
  • The amazing math inside the Rubik's Cube
  • What is a hyperbolic 3-manifold?
  • Higher dimensional geometries : what are they good for?
  • Who mourns the tenth Heegner number?
  • On your mark, get set, multiply
  • 1994, the year calculus was born
  • Gauss's computation of the Easter date
  • Mathematical knowledge and reality
  • The ins and outs of mathematical explanation
  • Statistical intervals, not statistical significance
  • Contributors
  • Notable writings
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits