The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 / / ed. by Mircea Pitici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alexanderson, Gerald L.,; Baez, John C.,; Belcastro, Sarah-Marie,; Bruno, Giuseppe,; Colyvan, Mark,; Davis, Brent,; Elwes, Richard,; Epp, Susanna S.,; Flapan, Eririca,; Garfunkel, Sol,; Genovese, Andrea,; Gold, Bonnie,; Gouvêa, Fernando Q.,; Gowers, Timothy,; Gray, Jeremy,; Hacking, Ian,; Hayes, Brian,; Huerta, John,; Improta, Gennaro,; Lang, Robert J.,; Livio, Mario,; Mumford, David,; Pitici, Mircea,; Rowlett, Peter,; Schaffer, Karl,; Schneiderman, Rob,; Simmons, Charlotte,; Swart, David,; Tao, Terence,; Torrence, Bruce,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mumford, David.
• HerausgeberIn: Pitici, Mircea,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 37 halftones. 15 line illus. 3 tables.

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 2012 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere el...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword: The Synergy of Pure and Applied Mathematics, of the Abstract and the Concrete
• Introduction
• Why Math Works
• Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?
• The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics
• An Adventure in the Nth Dimension
• Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers
• The Strangest Numbers in String Theory
• Mathematics Meets Photography: The Viewable Sphere
• Dancing Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance
• Can One Hear the Sound of a Theorem?
• Flat-Unfoldability and Woven Origami Tessellations
• A Continuous Path from High School Calculus to University Analysis
• Mathematics Teachers’ Subtle, Complex Disciplinary Knowledge
• How to Be a Good Teacher Is an Undecidable Problem
• How Your Philosophy of Mathematics Impacts Your Teaching
• Variables in Mathematics Education
• Bottom Line on Mathematics Education
• History of Mathematics and History of Science Reunited?
• Augustus De Morgan behind the Scenes
• Routing Problems: A Historical Perspective
• The Cycloid and Jean Bernoulli
• Was Cantor Surprised?
• Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?
• Ultimate Logic: To Infinity and Beyond
• Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It’s All in the Game
• Contributors
• Notable Texts
• Acknowledgments
• Credits