An edition of The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014
(2014)
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014
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 2014
Nov 23, 2014, Princeton University Press
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0691164177 9780691164175
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Table of Contents
Mathematics and the good life -- Stephen Pollard
The rise of big data : how it's changing the way we think about the world -- Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Shönberger
Conway's wizards -- Tanya Khovanova
On unsettleable arithmetical problems -- John H. Conway
Crinkly curves -- Brian Hayes
Why do we perceive logarithmically? -- Lav R. Varshney and John Z. Sun
The music of math games -- Keith Devlin
The fundamental theorem of algebra for artists -- Bahman Kalantari and Bruce Torrence
The arts--digitized, quantified, and analyzed -- Nicole Lazar
On the number of Klein bottle types -- Carlo H. Séquin
Adventures in mathematical knitting -- Sarah-Marie Belcastro
The mathematics of fountain design : a multiple-centers activity -- Marshall Gordon
Food for (mathematical) thought -- Penelope Dunham
Wondering about wonder in mathematics -- Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis
The lesson of grace in teaching -- Francis Edward Su
Generic proving : reflections on scope and method -- Uri Leron and Orit Zaslavsky
Extreme proofs I : the irrationality of 2 -- John H. Conway and Jospeh Shipman
Stuck in the middle : Cauchy's intermediate value theorem and the history of analytical vigor -- Michael J. Barany
Plato, Poincaré, and the enchanted dodecahedron : is the universe shaped like the Poincaré homology sphere? -- Lawrence Breton
Computing with real numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and beyond -- Mark Braverman
Chaos at fifty -- Adilson E. Motter and David K. Campbell
Twenty-five analogies for explaining statistical concepts -- Roberto Behar, Pere Grima, and Lluís Marco-Almagro
College admissions and the stability of marriage -- David Gale and Lloyd S. Shap;ey
The beauty of bounded gaps -- Jordan Ellenberg.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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