Screen LibraryThe best writing on mathematics. 2014 /
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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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton ; Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780691164175 : 0691164177 : |
| Index Number: | QA8 |
| CLC: | O1 |
| Call Number: | O1/B561-2 |
| Contents: |
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 / |