The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021 / / Mircea Pitici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Pitici, Mircea,
• MitwirkendeR: Askew, Mike,; Barany, Michael J.,; Blåsjö, Viktor,; Conway, J. H.,; Duddy, Michael C.,; Edwards, Harold M.,; Garcia, Stephan Ramon,; Glesser, Adam,; Hand, David J.,; Hartnett, Kevin,; Howe, Roger,; Lewis-Pye, Andrew,; Logsdon, Ben,; Lucas, Stephen K.,; Mahajan, Sanjoy,; Michaelsen, Anya,; Monroe, Don,; Moscow, U. S. S. R.,; Nasifoglu, Yelda,; Nathanson, Melvyn B.,; Paterson, M. S.,; Pitici, Mircea,; Pomerantz, Steve,; Sander, Evelyn,; Siehler, Jacob,; Sokol, Joshua,; Suceavă, Bogdan D.,; Taalman, Laura,; Tao, Terence,; Trnkova, Maria,; Vâjiac, Mihaela B.,; Wagon, Stan,; Wallace, Michael,; Wolchover, Natalie,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 16 color + 91 b/w illus.

The year’s finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year’s finest mathematics writing from around the world—and you don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces collected here. These essays—from leading names and fresh new voices—delve into t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Lockdown Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
• Cryptocurrencies: Protocols for Consensus
• Logical Accidents and the Problem of the Inside Corner
• Cosmatesque Design and Complex Analysis
• Nullstellenfont
• Hyperbolic Flowers
• Embodied Geometry in Early Modern Theatre
• Modeling Dynamical Systems for 3D Printing
• Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
• Bouncing Balls and Quantum Computing
• Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades through Physics and Math
• Dark Data
• Analysis in an Imperfect World
• A Headache-Causing Problem
• A Zeroth Power Is Often a Logarithm Yearning to Be Free
• The Bicycle Paradox
• Tricolor Pyramids
• Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come from a Century-Old Approach to Math
• The Role of History in the Study of Mathematics
• “All of These Political Questions”: Anticommunism, Racism, and the Origin of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society
• Reasoning as a Mathematical Habit of Mind
• Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics—How Are We Doing?
• Tips for Undergraduate Research Supervisors
• “The Infinite Is the Chasm in Which Our Thoughts Are Lost”: Reflections on Sophie Germain’s Essays
• Who Owns the Theorem?
• A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed
• Contributors
• Notable Writings
• Acknowledgments
• Credits