The best writing on mathematics, 2014 /

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 el...

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Other Authors / Creators:Pitici, Mircea, 1965-
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Series:Best Writing on Mathematics.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mathematics and the Good Life
  • The Rise of Big Data: How It's Changing the Way We Think about the World
  • Conway's Wizards
  • On Unsettleable Arithmetical Problems
  • Crinkly Curves
  • Why Do We Perceive Logarithmically?
  • The Music of Math Games
  • The Fundamental Theorem ofAlgebra for Artists
  • The Arts-Digitized, Quantified, and Analyzed
  • On the Number of Klein Bottle Types
  • Adventures in Mathematical Knitting
  • The Mathematics of Fountain Design: A Multiple-Centers Activity
  • Food for (Mathematical) Thought
  • Wondering about Wonder in Mathematics
  • The Lesson of Grace in Teaching
  • Generic Proving: Reflections on Scope and Method
  • Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of
  • Stuck in the Middle: Cauchy's Intermediate Value Theorem and the History of Analytic Rigor
  • Plato, Voincaré, and the Enchanted Dodecahedron: Is the Universe Shaped Like the Poincaré Homology Sphere?
  • Computing with Real Numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and Beyond
  • Chaos at Fifty
  • Twenty-Five Analogies for Explaining Statistical Concepts
  • College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage
  • The Beauty of Bounded Gaps
  • Contributors
  • Notable Writings
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits