The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017
The year's finest mathematics writing from around the world This 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 2017 makes available t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2017, ©2018
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| Series: | The Best Writing on Mathematics
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Pitici, Mircea
- Mathematical Products / Davis, Philip J.
- The Largest Known Prime Number / Lamb, Evelyn
- A Unified Theory of Randomness / Hartnett, Kevin
- An “Infinitely Rich” Mathematician Turns 100 / Roberts, Siobhan
- Inverse Yogiisms / Trefethen, Lloyd N.
- Ramanujan in Bronze / Alexanderson, Gerald L. / KlosinsKi, Leonard F.
- Creating Symmetric Fractals / Riddle, Larry
- Projective Geometry in the Moon Tilt Illusion / Frantz, Marc
- Girih for Domes: Analysis of Three Iranian Domes / Kasraei, Mohammadhossein / Nourian, Yahya / MahdavineJad, MohammadJavad
- Why Kids Should Use Their Fingers in Math Class / Boaler, Jo / Chen, Lang
- Threshold Concepts and Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching / Breen, Sinéad / O’shea, Ann
- Rising above a Cause-and-Effect Stance in Mathematics Education Research / Mason, John
- How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing but a Piece of String / Blåsjö, Viktor
- Rendering Pacioli’s Rhombicuboctahedron / Séquin, Carlo H.
- Who Would Have Won the Fields Medal 150 Years Ago? / Gray, Jeremy
- Paradoxes, Contradictions, and the Limits of Science / Yanofsky, Noson S.
- Stairway to Heaven: The Abstract Method and Levels of Abstraction in Mathematics / Marquis, Jean-Pierre
- Are Our Brains Bayesian? / Bain, Robert
- Great Expectations: The Past, Present, and Future of Prediction / Southorn, Graham