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.
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Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
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Added Author |
Pitici, Mircea, 1965- editor.
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ISBN |
0691164177 |
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9780691164175 |
Standard No. |
99963364795 |
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