The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 / / ed. by Mircea Pitici.
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 availa...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Best Writing on Mathematics ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 16 color + 81 b/w illus. |
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Table of 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