The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016 (eBook)

Mircea Pitici (Herausgeber)

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2017
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8560-2 (ISBN)

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Mircea Pitici holds a PhD in mathematics education from Cornell University and is working on a master's degree in library and information science at Syracuse University. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.

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The year's finest mathematics 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 2016 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 writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates.Here Burkard Polster shows how to invent your own variants of the Spot It! card game, Steven Strogatz presents young Albert Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, Joseph Dauben and Marjorie Senechal find a treasure trove of math in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Andrew Gelman explains why much scientific research based on statistical testing is spurious. In other essays, Brian Greene discusses the evolving assumptions of the physicists who developed the mathematical underpinnings of string theory, Jorge Almeida examines the misperceptions of people who attempt to predict lottery results, and Ian Stewart offers advice to authors who aspire to write successful math books for general readers. And there's much, much more.In addition to presenting the year's most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a bibliography of other notable writings and an introduction by the editor, Mircea Pitici. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us-and where it is headed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The Best Writing on Mathematics
• Reihe/Serie: The Best Writing on Mathematics
• Zusatzinfo: 119 color illus. 12 halftones. 31 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Schlagworte: ABC conjecture • Alan Turing • A Mathematician's Apology • American Mathematical Society • Analytic number theory • Analytic proof • Applied mathematics • arithmetic • Association for Women in Mathematics • Church–Turing thesis • Clay Mathematics Institute • Colin Adams (mathematician) • combinatorial proof • computational mathematics • Computational Science • computer algebra system • Conchoid (mathematics) • David Hilbert • David Singmaster • David Tall • Elementary algebra • Elementary mathematics • Engineering Mathematics • Error analysis (Mathematics) • Euler Book Prize • Euler's Theorem • Experimental Mathematics • Fair coin • Fermat's Last Theorem • fundamental theorem • Fundamental Theorem of Algebra • fundamental theorem of calculus • Geometric Algebra • Geometry • Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems • Goodstein's Theorem • Hilbert's Tenth Problem • Hilbert's Third Problem • Homological algebra • Ideal number • Jordan Curve Theorem • Lambda Calculus • linear algebra • London Mathematical Society • Magic Square • Mathematical Analysis • Mathematical and theoretical biology • Mathematical Association of America • Mathematical beauty • Mathematical Contest in Modeling • Mathematical instrument • Mathematical Logic • Mathematical maturity • mathematical practice • Mathematical Proof • Mathematical Sciences • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute • mathematician • Mathematics • mathematics education • Mathematics Magazine • Math Girls • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics • Measure (mathematics) • Men of Mathematics • Moment (mathematics) • Monte Carlo Algorithm • Number Theory • Open problem • optimization problem • Pascal's triangle • philosophy of mathematics • Popular Mathematics • Pre-algebra • Principles and Standards for School Mathematics • Proportionality (mathematics) • Pseudorandom number generator • Pure Mathematics • Pythagorean Theorem • Recreational Mathematics • Reform mathematics • reverse mathematics • Robin Wilson (mathematician) • scientific notation • Sign (mathematics) • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics • Special right triangle • Speedup theorem • Spline (mathematics) • The Elegant Universe • The Mathematical Gazette • The Mathematical Intelligencer • Theorem • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences • Traditional mathematics • Triviality (mathematics) • Turing Machine • Unification (computer science) • Variable (mathematics) • William Dunham (mathematician)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8560-4 / 1400885604
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8560-2 / 9781400885602