The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015
By: Mircea Pitici, editor
Series: Best Writing on Mathematics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Jan 12, 2016
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780691169651
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Mathematics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Mircea Pitici; title: A dusty discipline  -- Michael J. Barany and Donald MacKenzie; title: How puzzles made us human  -- Pradeep Mutalik; title: Let the games continue  -- Colm Mulcahy and Dana Richards; title: Challenging magic squares for magicians  -- Arthur T. Benjamin and Ethan J. Brown; title: Candy Crush's puzzling mathematics  -- Toby Walsh; title: Chaos on the billiard table  -- Marianne Freiberger; title: Juggling with numbers  -- Erik R. Tou; title: The quest for randomness  -- Scott Aaronson; title: Synthetic biology, real mathematics  -- Dana Mackenzie; title: At the far ends of a new universal law  -- Natalie Wolchover; title: Twisted math and beautiful geometry  -- Eli Maor and Eugen Jost; title: Kenichi Miura's water wheel, or, The dance of the shapes of constant width  -- Burkard Polster; title: Dürer: disguise, distance, disagreements, and diagonals!  -- Annalisa Crannell, Marc Frantz, and Fumiko Futamura; title: The quaternion group as a symmetry group  -- Vi Hart and Henry Segerman; title: The Steiner-Lehmus angle-bisector theorem  -- John Conway and Alex Ryba; title: Key ideas and memorability in proof  -- Gila Hanna and John Mason; title: 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; title: Demystifying the math myth: analyzing the contributing factors for the achievement gap between Chinese and U.S. students  -- Guili Zhang and Miguel A. Padilla; title: The pigeonhole principle, two centuries before Dirichlet  -- Benoît Rittaud and Albrecht Heeffer; title: A prehistory of Nim  -- Lisa Rougetet; title: Gödel, Gentzen, Goodstein: the magic sound of a G-string  -- Jan von Plato; title: Global and local  -- James Franklin; title: Mathematical beauty, understanding, and discovery  -- Carlo Cellucci; title: A guide for the perplexed: what mathematicians need to know to understand philosophers of mathematics  -- Mark Balaguer; title: Writing about math for the perplexed and the traumatized  -- Steven Strogatz; title: Is big data enough? A reflection on the changing role of mathematics in applications  -- Domenico Napoletani, Marco Panza, and Daniele C. Struppa; title: The statistical crisis in science  -- Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken; title: Statistics and the Ontario Lottery retailer scandal  -- Jeffrey S. Rosenthal; title: Never say never -- David J. Hand.