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.