The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019

About this book

The year's finest mathematical writing from around the world

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 2019 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere elseā€”and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These essays delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights into its nature, meaning, and practiceā€”and taking readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates.

In this volume, Moon Duchin explains how geometric-statistical methods can be used to combat gerrymandering, Jeremy Avigad illustrates the growing use of computation in making and verifying mathematical hypotheses, and Kokichi Sugihara describes how to construct geometrical objects with unusual visual properties. In other essays, Neil Sloane presents some recent additions to the vast database of integer sequences he has catalogued, and Alessandro Di Bucchianico and his colleagues highlight how mathematical methods have been successfully applied to big-data problems. And there's much, much more.

In addition to presenting the year's most memorable math writing, this must-have anthology includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography of other notable writings on mathematics.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in where math has taken usā€”and where it is headed.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Introduction
  8. Geometry v. Gerrymandering
  9. Slicing Sandwiches, States, and Solar Systems: Can Mathematical Tools Help Determine What Divisions Are Provably Fair?
  10. Does Mathematics Teach How to Think?
  11. Abstracting the Rubikā€™s Cube
  12. Topology-Disturbing Objects: A New Class of 3D Optical Illusion
  13. Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link between Two Geometric Worlds
  14. Professor Engelā€™s Marvelously Improbable Machines
  15. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
  16. Mathematics for Big Data
  17. The Un(solv)able Problem
  18. The Mechanization of Mathematics
  19. Mathematics as an Empirical Phenomenon, Subject to Modeling
  20. Does 2 + 3 = 5? In Defense of a Near Absurdity
  21. Gregoryā€™s Sixth Operation
  22. Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning: What Math Can Teach Us about Finding Order in our Chaotic Lives
  23. Ethics in Statistical Practice and Communication: Five Recommendations
  24. The Fields Medal Should Return to Its Roots
  25. The Erdős Paradox
  26. Contributors
  27. Notable Writings
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Credits