The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 / / ed. by Mircea Pitici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Barany, Michael J.,; Behar, Roberto,; Belcastro, Sarah-Marie,; Braverman, Mark,; Brenton, Lawrence,; Campbell, David K.,; Conway, John H.,; Cukier, Kenneth,; Devlin, Keith,; Dunham, Penelope,; Ellenberg, Jordan,; Gale, David,; Gordon, Marshall,; Grima, Pere,; Hayes, Brian,; Kalantari, Bahman,; Khovanova, Tanya,; Lazar, Nicole,; Leron, Uri,; Marco-Almagro, Lluís,; Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor,; Motter, Adilson E.,; Pitici, Mircea,; Pollard, Stephen,; Shapley, Lloyd S.,; Shipman, Joseph,; Su, Francis Edward,; Sun, John Z.,; Séquin, Carlo H.,; Torrence, Bruce,; Varshney, Lav R.,; Zaslavsky, Orit,; Zazkis, Dov,; Zazkis, Rina,
• HerausgeberIn: Pitici, Mircea,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Series: The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 34 color illus. 60 halftones. 30 line illus.

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 2014 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere el...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Mathematics and the Good Life
• The Rise of Big Data: How It's Changing the Way We Think about the World
• Conway's Wizards
• On Unsettleable Arithmetical Problems
• Crinkly Curves
• Why Do We Perceive Logarithmically?
• The Music of Math Games
• The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra for Artists
• The Arts-Digitized, Quantified, and Analyzed
• On the Number of Klein Bottle Types
• Adventures in Mathematical Knitting
• The Mathematics of Fountain Design: A Multiple-Centers Activity
• Food for (Mathematical) Thought
• Wondering about Wonder in Mathematics
• The Lesson of Grace in Teaching
• Generic Proving: Reflections on Scope and Method
• Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2
• Stuck in the Middle: Cauchy's Intermediate Value Theorem and the History of Analytic Rigor
• Plato, Poincaré, and the Enchanted Dodecahedron: Is the Universe Shaped Like the Poincaré Homology Sphere?
• Computing with Real Numbers, from Archimedes to Turing and Beyond
• Chaos at Fifty
• Twenty-Five Analogies for Explaining Statistical Concepts
• College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage
• The Beauty of Bounded Gaps
• Contributors
• Notable Writings
• Acknowledgments
• Credits