The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015 / / ed. by Mircea Pitici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Aaronson, Scott,; Balaguer, Mark,; Barany, Michael J.,; Benjamin, Arthur T.,; Briars, Diane,; Brown, Ethan J.,; Cellucci, Carlo,; Conway, John,; Crannell, Annalisa,; Fey, Jim,; Franklin, James,; Frantz, Marc,; Freiberger, Marianne,; Futamura, Fumiko,; Garfunkel, Sol,; Gelman, Andrew,; Hand, David J.,; Hanna, Gila,; Hart, Vi,; Heeffer, Albrecht,; Isaacs, Andy,; Jost, Eugen,; Loken, Eric,; MacKenzie, Donald,; Mackenzie, Dana,; Maor, Eli,; Mason, John,; Mulcahy, Colm,; Mutalik, Pradeep,; Napoletani, Domenico,; Padilla, Miguel A.,; Panza, Marco,; Pitici, Mircea,; Plato, Jan von,; Pollak, Henry,; Polster, Burkard,; Richards, Dana,; Rittaud, Benoît,; Robinson, Eric,; Rosenthal, Jeffrey S.,; Rougetet, Lisa,; Ryba, Alex,; Scheaffer, Richard,; Schoenfeld, Alan,; Seeley, Cathy,; Segerman, Henry,; Strogatz, Steven,; Struppa, Daniele C.,; Teague, Dan,; Tou, Erik R.,; Usiskin, Zalman,; Walsh, Toby,; Wolchover, Natalie,; Zhang, Guili,
• HerausgeberIn: Pitici, Mircea,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 25 color illus. 10 halftones. 95 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 2015 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere el...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• A Dusty Discipline
• How Puzzles Made Us Human
• Let the Games Continue
• Challenging Magic Squares for Magicians
• Candy Crush's Puzzling Mathematics
• Chaos on the Billiard Table
• Juggling with Numbers
• The Quest for Randomness
• Synthetic Biology, Real Mathematics
• At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law
• Twisted Math and Beautiful Geometry
• Kenichi Miura's Water Wheel, or The Dance of the Shapes of Constant Width
• Dürer: Disguise, Distance, Disagreements, and Diagonals!
• The Quaternion Group as a Symmetry Group
• The Steiner- Lehmus Angle- Bisector Theorem
• Key Ideas and Memorability in Proof
• The Future of High School Mathematics
• Demystifying the Math Myth: Analyzing the Contributing Factors for the Achievement Gap between Chinese and U.S. Students
• The Pigeonhole Principle, Two Centuries before Dirichlet
• A Prehistory of Nim
• Gödel, Gentzen, Goodstein: The Magic Sound of a G- String
• Global and Local
• Mathematical Beauty, Understanding, and Discovery
• A Guide for the Perplexed: What Mathematicians Need to Know to Understand Philosophers of Mathematics
• Writing about Math for the Perplexed and the Traumatized
• Is Big Data Enough? A Reflection on the Changing Role of Mathematics in Applications
• The Statistical Crisis in Science
• Statistics and the Ontario Lottery Retailer Scandal
• Never Say Never
• Contributors
• Notable Writings
• Acknowledgments
• Credits