The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014
By: Mircea Pitici, editor
Series: Best Writing on Mathematics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Nov 23, 2014
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780691164175
Copyright date: 2015
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: Mathematics and the good life  -- Stephen Pollard; title: The rise of big data : how it's changing the way we think about the world  -- Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Shönberger; title: Conway's wizards  -- Tanya Khovanova; title: On unsettleable arithmetical problems  -- John H. Conway; title: Crinkly curves  -- Brian Hayes; title: Why do we perceive logarithmically?  -- Lav R. Varshney and John Z. Sun; title: The music of math games  -- Keith Devlin; title: The fundamental theorem of algebra for artists  -- Bahman Kalantari and Bruce Torrence; title: The arts--digitized, quantified, and analyzed  -- Nicole Lazar; title: On the number of Klein bottle types  -- Carlo H. Séquin; title: Adventures in mathematical knitting  -- Sarah-Marie Belcastro; title: The mathematics of fountain design : a multiple-centers activity  -- Marshall Gordon; title: Food for (mathematical) thought  -- Penelope Dunham; title: Wondering about wonder in mathematics  -- Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis; title: The lesson of grace in teaching  -- Francis Edward Su; title: Generic proving : reflections on scope and method  -- Uri Leron and Orit Zaslavsky; title: Extreme proofs I : the irrationality of 2  -- John H. Conway and Jospeh Shipman; title: Stuck in the middle : Cauchy's intermediate value theorem and the history of analytical vigor  -- Michael J. Barany; title: Plato, Poincaré, and the enchanted dodecahedron : is the universe shaped like the Poincaré homology sphere?  -- Lawrence Breton; title: Computing with real numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and beyond  -- Mark Braverman; title: Chaos at fifty  -- Adilson E. Motter and David K. Campbell; title: Twenty-five analogies for explaining statistical concepts  -- Roberto Behar, Pere Grima, and Lluís Marco-Almagro; title: College admissions and the stability of marriage  -- David Gale and Lloyd S. Shap;ey; title: The beauty of bounded gaps -- Jordan Ellenberg.