The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016 / / ed. by Mircea Pitici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Abbott, Derek,; Acheson, David,; Almeida, Jorge,; Bass, Hyman,; Beals, Katharine,; Blåsjö, Viktor,; Bowman, Joshua,; Castelvecchi, Davide,; Christenson, Hannah Elizabeth,; Daas, Piet,; Dauben, Joseph,; Feinberg, Richard,; Frantz, Marc,; Garcia, Stephan Ramon,; Garelick, Barry,; Gelman, Andrew,; Greene, Brian,; Hartnett, Kevin,; Hayes, Brian,; Khovanova, Tanya,; Klarreich, Erica,; Levy, Rachel,; Nie, Eric,; Polster, Burkard,; PuraniK, Alok,; Puts, Marco,; Quinn, Jennifer J.,; Richeson, David,; Schoenfeld, Alan H.,; Senechal, Marjorie,; Serrano, Isabel M.,; Shell-Gellasch, Amy,; Silver, Daniel S.,; Stewart, Ian,; Stillwell, John,; Strang, Gilbert,; Strogatz, Steven,; Suceavă, Bogdan D.,; Turner, Peter R.,; Waal, Ton de,; Wainer, Howard,
• HerausgeberIn: Pitici, Mircea,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 119 color illus. 12 halftones. 31 line illus. 2 tables.

The year's finest mathematics 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 2016 makes availab...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Mathematics and Teaching
• In Defense of Pure Mathematics
• G. H. Hardy: Mathematical Biologist
• The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics
• Stacking Wine Bottles Revisited
• The Way the Billiard Ball Bounces
• The Intersection Game
• Tonight! Epic Math Battles: Counting vs. Matching
• Mathematicians Chase Moonshine's Shadow
• The Impenetrable Proof
• A Proof That Some Spaces Can't Be Cut
• Einstein's First Proof
• Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics
• The Pioneering Role of the Sierpinski Gasket
• Fractals as Photographs
• Math at the Met
• Common Sense about the Common Core
• Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst
• Teaching Applied Mathematics
• Circular Reasoning: Who First Proved That C Divided by d Is a Constant?
• A Medieval Mystery: Nicole Oresme's Concept of Curvitas
• The Myth of Leibniz's Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
• The Spirograph and Mathematical Models from Nineteenth- Century Germany
• What Does "Depth" Mean in Mathematics?
• Finding Errors in Big Data
• Programs and Probability
• Lottery Perception
• Why Acknowledging Uncertainty Can Make You a Better Scientist
• For Want of a Nail: Why Unnecessarily Long Tests May Be Impeding the Progress of Western Civilization
• How to Write a General Interest Mathematics Book
• Contributors
• Notable Writings
• Acknowledgments
• Credits