The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014
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This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 makes available to a wide audience many...
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This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates.
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Introduction, Mircea Pitici ix Mathematics and the Good Life, Stephen Pollard 1 The Rise of Big Data: How It's Changing the Way We Think about the World, Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger 20 Conway's Wizards, Tanya Khovanova 33 On Unsettleable Arithmetical Problems, John H. Conway 39 Color illustration section follows page 48 Crinkly Curves, Brian Hayes 49 Why Do We Perceive Logarithmically? Lav R. Varshney and John Z. Sun 64 The Music of Math Games, Keith Devlin 74 The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra for Artists, Bahman Kalantari and Bruce Torrence 87 The Arts-Digitized, Quantified, and Analyzed, Nicole Lazar 96 On the Number of Klein Bottle Types, Carlo H. Sequin 105 Adventures in Mathematical Knitting, Sarah-Marie Belcastro 128 The Mathematics of Fountain Design: A Multiple-Centers Activity, Marshall Gordon 144 Food for (Mathematical) Thought, Penelope Dunham 156 Wondering about Wonder in Mathematics, Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis 165 The Lesson of Grace in Teaching, Francis Edward Su 188 Generic Proving: Reflections on Scope and Method, Uri Leron and Orit Zaslavsky 198 Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of 2, John H. Conway and Joseph Shipman 216 Stuck in the Middle: Cauchy's Intermediate Value Theorem and the History of Analytic Rigor, Michael J. Barany 228 Plato, Poincare, and the Enchanted Dodecahedron: Is the Universe Shaped Like the Poincare Homology Sphere? Lawrence Brenton 239 Computing with Real Numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and Beyond, Mark Braverman 251 Chaos at Fifty, Adilson E. Motter and David K. Campbell 270 Twenty-Five Analogies for Explaining Statistical Concepts, Roberto Behar, Pere Grima, and Lluis Marco-Almagro 288 College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage, David Gale and Lloyd S. Shapley 299 The Beauty of Bounded Gaps, Jordan Ellenberg 308 Contributors 315 Notable Writings 325 Acknowledgments 333 Credits 335
Autoren-Porträt von Mircea Pitici
Mircea Pitici teaches mathematics and writing at Cornell University, where he is a PhD candidate in math education. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mircea Pitici
- 2014, 424 Seiten, 87 Abbildungen, Maße: 14 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Mircea Pitici
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691164177
- ISBN-13: 9780691164175
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.11.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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