The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018 / / ed. by Mircea Pitici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Arney, Chris,; Barany, Michael J.,; Benjamin, Arthur,; Braun, Benjamin,; Bremser, Priscilla,; Demaine, Erik D.,; Demaine, Martin L.,; Denning, Peter J.,; Dijkgraaf, Robbert,; Duval, Art M.,; Ferreirós, José,; Grime, James,; Hesterberg, Adam,; Heule, Marijn J. H.,; Kisenwether, Joseph,; Kress, Nancy Emerson,; Kullmann, Oliver,; Liu, Quanquan,; Lockwood, Elise,; Mansfield, Daniel,; Odom, Lucy H.,; Pitici, Mircea,; Serrano, Isabel M.,; Su, Francis Edward,; Suceavă, Bogdan D.,; Taylor, Ron,; Thomas, Robert S. D.,; Uehara, Ryuhei,; Weiss, Ben,; Wertheim, Margaret,; White, Diana,; Wildberger, N. J.,; Winkler, Peter,; Yoon, Caroline,
• HerausgeberIn: Pitici, Mircea,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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 w...

Table of 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