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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021
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Title
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021 / Mircea Pitici.
ISBN
9780691225722
Publication
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (320 p.) : 16 color + 91 b/w illus.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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In English.
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Summary
The year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world-and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces collected here. These essays-from leading names and fresh new voices-delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights into its nature, meaning, and practice, and taking readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates.Here, Viktor Blåsjö gives a brief history of "lockdown mathematics"; Yelda Nasifoglu decodes the politics of a seventeenth-century play in which the characters are geometric shapes; and Andrew Lewis-Pye explains the basic algorithmic rules and computational procedures behind cryptocurrencies. In other essays, Terence Tao candidly recalls the adventures and misadventures of growing up to become a leading mathematician; Natalie Wolchover shows how old math gives new clues about whether time really flows; and David Hand discusses the problem of "dark data"-information that is missing or ignored. And there is much, much more.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2022
Series
The Best Writing on Mathematics ; 20
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Lockdown Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
Cryptocurrencies: Protocols for Consensus
Logical Accidents and the Problem of the Inside Corner
Cosmatesque Design and Complex Analysis
Nullstellenfont
Hyperbolic Flowers
Embodied Geometry in Early Modern Theatre
Modeling Dynamical Systems for 3D Printing
Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
Bouncing Balls and Quantum Computing
Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades through Physics and Math
Dark Data
Analysis in an Imperfect World
A Headache-Causing Problem
A Zeroth Power Is Often a Logarithm Yearning to Be Free
The Bicycle Paradox
Tricolor Pyramids
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come from a Century-Old Approach to Math
The Role of History in the Study of Mathematics
"All of These Political Questions": Anticommunism, Racism, and the Origin of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Reasoning as a Mathematical Habit of Mind
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics-How Are We Doing?
Tips for Undergraduate Research Supervisors
"The Infinite Is the Chasm in Which Our Thoughts Are Lost": Reflections on Sophie Germain's Essays
Who Owns the Theorem?
A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed
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