The best writing on mathematics 2015 /
Mircea Pitici, editor.
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographical references.
A dusty discipline / How puzzles made us human / Let the games continue / Challenging magic squares for magicians / Candy Crush's puzzling mathematics / Chaos on the billiard table / Juggling with numbers / The quest for randomness / Synthetic biology, real mathematics / At the far ends of a new universal law / Twisted math and beautiful geometry / Kenichi Miura's water wheel, or, The dance of the shapes of constant width / D�urer: disguise, distance, disagreements, and diagonals! / The quaternion group as a symmetry group / The Steiner-Lehmus angle-bisector theorem / Key ideas and memorability in proof / The future of high school mathematics / Demystifying the math myth: analyzing the contributing factors for the achievement gap between Chinese and U.S. students / The pigeonhole principle, two centuries before Dirichlet / A prehistory of Nim / G�odel, Gentzen, Goodstein: the magic sound of a G-string / Global and local / Mathematical beauty, understanding, and discovery / A guide for the perplexed: what mathematicians need to know to understand philosophers of mathematics / Writing about math for the perplexed and the traumatized / Is big data enough? A reflection on the changing role of mathematics in applications / The statistical crisis in science / Statistics and the Ontario Lottery retailer scandal / Never say never / Mircea Pitici -- Michael J. Barany and Donald MacKenzie -- Pradeep Mutalik -- Colm Mulcahy and Dana Richards -- Arthur T. Benjamin and Ethan J. Brown -- Toby Walsh -- Marianne Freiberger -- Erik R. Tou -- Scott Aaronson -- Dana Mackenzie -- Natalie Wolchover -- Eli Maor and Eugen Jost -- Burkard Polster -- Annalisa Crannell, Marc Frantz, and Fumiko Futamura -- Vi Hart and Henry Segerman -- John Conway and Alex Ryba -- Gila Hanna and John Mason -- Jim Fey, Sol Garfunkel, Diane Briars, Andy Isaacs, Henry Pollak, Eric Robinson, Richard Scheaffer, Alan Schoenfeld, Cathy Seeley, Dan Teague, and Zalman Usiskin -- Guili Zhang and Miguel A. Padilla -- Beno�it Rittaud and Albrecht Heeffer -- Lisa Rougetet -- Jan von Plato -- James Franklin -- Carlo Cellucci -- Mark Balaguer -- Steven Strogatz -- Domenico Napoletani, Marco Panza, and Daniele C. Struppa -- Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken -- Jeffrey S. Rosenthal -- David J. Hand. Introduction /
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.
9781400873371 1400873371 0691169659 9780691169651
9780691169651
EBC_SU
00021620 22573/ctvc63s8q JSTOR 9453383 IEEE
Mathematics.
Math�ematiques.
mathematics.
applied mathematics.
MATHEMATICS--Essays.
MATHEMATICS--Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS--Reference.
MATHEMATICS / General
Mathematics.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
QA8.6
510
Includes bibliographical references.
A dusty discipline / How puzzles made us human / Let the games continue / Challenging magic squares for magicians / Candy Crush's puzzling mathematics / Chaos on the billiard table / Juggling with numbers / The quest for randomness / Synthetic biology, real mathematics / At the far ends of a new universal law / Twisted math and beautiful geometry / Kenichi Miura's water wheel, or, The dance of the shapes of constant width / D�urer: disguise, distance, disagreements, and diagonals! / The quaternion group as a symmetry group / The Steiner-Lehmus angle-bisector theorem / Key ideas and memorability in proof / The future of high school mathematics / Demystifying the math myth: analyzing the contributing factors for the achievement gap between Chinese and U.S. students / The pigeonhole principle, two centuries before Dirichlet / A prehistory of Nim / G�odel, Gentzen, Goodstein: the magic sound of a G-string / Global and local / Mathematical beauty, understanding, and discovery / A guide for the perplexed: what mathematicians need to know to understand philosophers of mathematics / Writing about math for the perplexed and the traumatized / Is big data enough? A reflection on the changing role of mathematics in applications / The statistical crisis in science / Statistics and the Ontario Lottery retailer scandal / Never say never / Mircea Pitici -- Michael J. Barany and Donald MacKenzie -- Pradeep Mutalik -- Colm Mulcahy and Dana Richards -- Arthur T. Benjamin and Ethan J. Brown -- Toby Walsh -- Marianne Freiberger -- Erik R. Tou -- Scott Aaronson -- Dana Mackenzie -- Natalie Wolchover -- Eli Maor and Eugen Jost -- Burkard Polster -- Annalisa Crannell, Marc Frantz, and Fumiko Futamura -- Vi Hart and Henry Segerman -- John Conway and Alex Ryba -- Gila Hanna and John Mason -- Jim Fey, Sol Garfunkel, Diane Briars, Andy Isaacs, Henry Pollak, Eric Robinson, Richard Scheaffer, Alan Schoenfeld, Cathy Seeley, Dan Teague, and Zalman Usiskin -- Guili Zhang and Miguel A. Padilla -- Beno�it Rittaud and Albrecht Heeffer -- Lisa Rougetet -- Jan von Plato -- James Franklin -- Carlo Cellucci -- Mark Balaguer -- Steven Strogatz -- Domenico Napoletani, Marco Panza, and Daniele C. Struppa -- Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken -- Jeffrey S. Rosenthal -- David J. Hand. Introduction /
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.
9781400873371 1400873371 0691169659 9780691169651
9780691169651
EBC_SU
00021620 22573/ctvc63s8q JSTOR 9453383 IEEE
Mathematics.
Math�ematiques.
mathematics.
applied mathematics.
MATHEMATICS--Essays.
MATHEMATICS--Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS--Reference.
MATHEMATICS / General
Mathematics.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
QA8.6
510