The best writing on mathematics. 2017 /

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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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Pitici, Mircea, 1965- (Editor)
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
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: xvi, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780691178639 (paperback) :
0691178631 (paperback)
Index Number: QA8
CLC: O1
Call Number: O1/B561/2017
Contents: Mathematical products /
The largest known prime number /
A unified theory of randomness /
An "infinitely rich" mathematician turns 100 /
Inverse Yogiisms /
Ramanujan in bronze /
Creating symmetric fractals /
Projective geometry in the moon tilt illusion /
Girih for domes: analysis of three Iranian domes /
Why kids should use their fingers in math class /
Threshold concepts and undergraduate mathematics teaching /
Rising above a cause-and-effect stance in mathematics education research /
How to find the logarithm of any number using nothing but a piece of string /
Rendering Pacioli's Rhombicuboctahedron /
Who would have won the Fields Medal 150 years ago? /
Paradoxes, contradictions, and the limits of science /
Stairway to heaven: the abstract method and levels of abstraction in mathematics /
Are our brains Bayesian? /
Great expectations: the past, present, and future of prediction /