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Title The best writing on mathematics. 2014 / Mircea Pitici, editor.

Publication Info. Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  510 BEST 2014    Check Shelf
Description xxii, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 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.
Contents Mathematics and the good life / Stephen Pollard -- The rise of big data : how it's changing the way we think about the world / Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Shönberger -- Conway's wizards / Tanya Khovanova -- On unsettleable arithmetical problems / John H. Conway -- Crinkly curves / Brian Hayes -- Why do we perceive logarithmically? / Lav R. Varshney and John Z. Sun -- The music of math games / Keith Devlin -- The fundamental theorem of algebra for artists / Bahman Kalantari and Bruce Torrence -- The arts--digitized, quantified, and analyzed / Nicole Lazar -- On the number of Klein bottle types / Carlo H. Séquin -- Adventures in mathematical knitting / Sarah-Marie Belcastro -- The mathematics of fountain design : a multiple-centers activity / Marshall Gordon -- Food for (mathematical) thought / Penelope Dunham -- Wondering about wonder in mathematics / Dov Zazkis and Rina Zazkis -- The lesson of grace in teaching / Francis Edward Su -- Generic proving : reflections on scope and method / Uri Leron and Orit Zaslavsky -- Extreme proofs I : the irrationality of √2 / John H. Conway and Joseph Shipman -- Stuck in the middle : Cauchy's intermediate value theorem and the history of analytic rigor / Michael J. Barany -- Plato, Poincaré, and the enchanted dodecahedron : is the universe shaped like the Poincaré homology sphere? / Lawrence Brenton -- Computing with real numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and beyond / Mark Braverman -- Chaos at fifty / Adilson E. Motter and David K. Campbell -- Twenty-five analogies for explaining statistical concepts / Roberto Behar, Pere Grima, and Lluís Marco-Almagro -- College admissions and the stability of marriage / David Gale and Lloyd S. Shapley -- The beauty of bounded gaps / Jordan Ellenberg.
Subject Mathematics.
Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
Added Author Pitici, Mircea, 1965- editor.
ISBN 0691164177
9780691164175
Standard No. 99963364795
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