The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 / Mircea Pitici.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitici, Mircea, Editor.

Series:

The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis 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 2019 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else-and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These essays delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights into its nature, meaning, and practice-and taking readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates.Here, Moon Duchin explains how geometric-statistical methods can be used to design voting districts, Jeremy Avigad illustrates the growing use of computation in making and verifying mathematical hypotheses, and Kokichi Sugihara describes how to construct geometrical objects with unusual visual properties. In other essays, Neil Sloane presents some recent additions to the vast database of integer sequences he has catalogued, and Alessandro Di Bucchianico and his colleagues highlight how mathematical methods have been successfully applied to big-data problems. And there's much, much more.In addition to presenting the year's most memorable math writing, this must-have anthology includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography of other notable pieces on mathematics.This is a must-read for anyone interested in where math has taken us-and where it is headed.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Geometry v. Gerrymandering

Slicing Sandwiches, States, and Solar Systems: Can Mathematical Tools Help Determine What Divisions Are Provably Fair?

Does Mathematics Teach How to Think?

Abstracting the Rubik's Cube

Topology-Disturbing Objects: A New Class of 3D Optical Illusion

Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link between Two Geometric Worlds

Professor Engel's Marvelously Improbable Machines

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Mathematics for Big Data

The Un(solv)able Problem

The Mechanization of Mathematics

Mathematics as an Empirical Phenomenon, Subject to Modeling

Does 2 + 3 = 5? In Defense of a Near Absurdity

Gregory's Sixth Operation

Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning: What Math Can Teach Us about Finding Order in our Chaotic Lives

Ethics in Statistical Practice and Communication: Five Recommendations

The Fields Medal Should Return to Its Roots

The Erdős Paradox

Contributors

Notable Writings

Acknowledgments

Credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691197944

0691197946

OCLC:

1114970821