An edition of The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015
(2016)
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015
by Mircea Pitici
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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.
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015
Jan 12, 2016, Princeton University Press
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0691169659 9780691169651
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Table of Contents
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
Dürer: 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 -- Benoît Rittaud and Albrecht Heeffer
A prehistory of Nim -- Lisa Rougetet
Gödel, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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