Best writing on mathematics 2016
An anthology of the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world, featuring promising new voices as well as some of the foremost names in mathematics.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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 PhotographsMath 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 ScientistFor 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.