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The best writing on mathematics
| Responsibility | Mircea Pitici, editor |
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| Material Type | Book |
| Publisher | Princeton : Princeton University Press |
| Year | c2011- |
| Language | English |
| Size | v. : ill., facsims. ; 22 cm |
| Abstract | This anthology brings together the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, this volume makes av...ilable to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else. This 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 2011" makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and readers don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. 424 pp. This annual anthology brings together the yearÆs finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voice alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else-and you donÆt need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the sense of todayÆs hottest mathematical debates. Here Robert Lang explains mathematical aspects of origami foldings; Terence Tao discusses the frequency and distribution of the prime numbers; Timothy Gowers and Mario Livio ponder whether mathematics is invented or discovered; Brian Hayes describes what is special about a ball in five dimensions; Mark Colyvan glosses on the mathematics of dating; and much, much more. This 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 available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else-and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. Here Burkard Polster shows how to invent your own variants of the Spot It! card game, Steven Strogatz presents young Albert Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, Joseph Dauben and Marjorie Senechal find a treasure trove of math in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Andrew Gelman explains why much scientific research based on statistical testing is spurious. In other essays, Brian Greene discusses the evolving assumptions of the physicists who developed the mathematical underpinnings of string theory, Jorge Almeida examines the misperceptions of people who attempt to predict lottery results, and Ian Stewart offers advice to authors who aspire to write successful math books for general readers. And there's much, much more. In addition to presenting the year's most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a bibliography of other notable writings and an introduction by the editor, Mircea Pitici. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us-and where it is headed. Book jacket.show more |
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| Status | Volume | Location | Call No. | Printed | Collection Name | Barcode No. | Comments | Reserve | Copy | Automatic archive |
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| 2011 | SciTech 3F Mathematical Books | P 012/BEST/1 | 2012 |
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| 2012 | SciTech 3F Mathematical Books | P 013/BEST/1 | 2013 |
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| 2014 | SciTech 3F Mathematical Books | P 015/BEST/1 | 2015 |
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| 2016 | SciTech 3F Mathematical Books | P 017/BEST/1 | 2017 |
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| 2017 | SciTech 3F Mathematical Books | P 018/BEST/1 | 2018 |
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| 2019 : [hardcover] | SciTech 3F Mathematical Books | P 019/BEST/1 | 2019 |
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Bibliographic details
| Other titles | variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2010 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2011 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2012 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2013 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2014 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2016 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2017 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2018 variant access title:The best writing on mathematics 2019 |
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| Notes | [Vol.] 2012 foreword by David Mumford [Vol.] 2013 foreword by Roger Penrose Includes bibliographical references |
| Authors | Pitici, Mircea, 1965- |
| Subjects | LCSH:Mathematics |
| Classification | DC22:510 |
| ID | 1001460527 |
| ISBN | 9780691148410 |
| NCID | BB07346809 |
| Vol | 2010 ; ISBN:9780691148410 2011 ; ISBN:9780691153155 2012 ; ISBN:9780691156552 2013 ; ISBN:9780691160412 2014 ; ISBN:9780691164175 2015 ; ISBN:9780691169651 2016 ; ISBN:9780691175294 2017 ; ISBN:9780691178639 2018 ; ISBN:9780691182766 2019 ; ISBN:9780691198354 2019 : [hardcover] ; ISBN:9780691198675 |
| NBN | 015841511 |
| Created Date | 2011.11.22 |
| Modified Date | 2020.05.29 |