The best writing on mathematics 2016 /
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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mircea Pitici
- Mathematics and teaching / Hyman Bass
- In defense of pure mathematics / Daniel S. Silver
- G.H. Hardy : mathematical biologist / Hannah Elizabeth Christenson & Stephan Ramon Garcia
- The reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics / Derek Abbott
- Stacking wine bottles revisited / Burkard Polster
- The way the billiard ball bounces / Joshua Bowman
- The intersection game / Burkard Polster
- Tonight! Epic math battles : counting vs. matching / Jennifer J. Quinn
- Mathematicians chase moonshine's shadow / Erica Klarreich
- The impenetrable proof / Davide Castelvecchi
- A proof that some spaces can't be cut / Kevin Hartnett
- Einstein's first proof / Steven Strogatz
- Why string theory still offers hope we can unify physics / Brian Greene
- The pioneering role of the Sierpinski gasket / Tanya Khovanova, Eric Nie, & Alok Puranik
- Fractals as photographs / Marc Frantz
- Math at the Met / Joseph Dauben & Marjorie Senechal
- Common sense about the common core / Alan H. Schoenfeld
- Explaining your math : unnecessary at best, encumbering at worst / Katharine Beals & Barry Garelick
- Teaching applied mathematics / David Acheson, Peter R. Turner, Gilbert Strang, & Rachel Levy
- Circular reasoning : who first proved that C divided by d Is a constant? / David Richeson
- A medieval mystery : Nicole Oresme's concept of curvitas / Isabel M. Serrano & Bogdan D. Suceava
- The myth of Leibniz's proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus / Viktor Blasjo
- The Spirograph and mathematical models from nineteenth-century Germany / Amy Shell-Gellasch
- What does "depth" mean in mathematics? / John Stillwell
- Finding errors in big data / Marco Puts, Piet Daas, & Ton de Waal
- Programs and probability / Brian Hayes
- Lottery perception / Jorge Almeida
- Why acknowledging uncertainty can make you a better scientist / Andrew Gelman
- For want of a nail : why unnecessarily long tests may be impeding the progress of western civilization / Howard Wainer & Richard Feinberg
- How to write a general interest mathematics book / Ian Stewart.
