The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018 / Mircea Pitici.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitici, Mircea, Editor.

Series:

The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Popular works.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

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 2018 makes available to a wide audience many pieces 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.James Grime shows how to build subtly mischievous dice for playing slightly unfair games, David Rowe investigates the many different meanings and pedigrees of mathematical models, and Michael Barany traces how our appreciation of the societal importance of mathematics has developed since World War II. In other essays, Francis Su extolls the inherent values of learning, doing, and sharing mathematics, and Margaret Wertheim takes us on a mathematical exploration of the mind and the world-with glimpses at science, philosophy, music, art, and even crocheting. 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

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

How To Play Mathematics

Beauty Is Not All There Is to Aesthetics in Mathematics

The Science of Brute Force

Computational Thinking in Science

Quantum Questions Inspire New Math

Tangled Tangles

The Bizarre World of Nontransitive Dice: Games for Two or More Players

The Bingo Paradox

The Sleeping Beauty Controversy

Wigner's "Unreasonable Effectiveness" in Context

Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Modeling

Six Essential Questions for Problem Solving

What Does Active Learning Mean for Mathematicians?

Written in Stone: The World's First Trigonometry Revealed in an Ancient Babylonian Tablet

Quadrivium: The Structure of Mathematics as Described in Isidore of Seville's Etymologies

The World War II Origins of Mathematics Awareness

The Writing Mathematician

Contributors

Notable Writings

Acknowledgments

Credits

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780691188720

0691188726

OCLC:

1053623331