The best writing on mathematics 2015 / Mircea Pitici, editor.
Contributor(s): Pitici, Mircea [editor.].
Material type: BookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400873371; 1400873371; 0691169659; 9780691169651.Subject(s): Mathematics | Math�ematiques | mathematics | applied mathematics | MATHEMATICS -- Essays | MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus | MATHEMATICS -- Reference | MATHEMATICS / General | MathematicsGenre/Form: Electronic book. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pitici, Mircea. The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015DDC classification: 510 Online resources: Click here to access onlineAn 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.
Print version record.
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 -- D�urer: 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 / Beno�it Rittaud and Albrecht Heeffer -- A prehistory of Nim / Lisa Rougetet -- G�odel, 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
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