The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018

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 2018 makes available to a wide audience many pieces not easily found anywhere else—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 practice—and taking readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates.

James Grime shows how to build subtly mischievous dice for playing slightly unfair games and Michael Barany traces how our appreciation of the societal importance of mathematics has developed since World War II. In other essays, Francis Su extolls the inherent values of learning, doing, and sharing mathematics, and Margaret Wertheim takes us on a mathematical exploration of the mind and the world—with glimpses at science, philosophy, music, art, and even crocheting. 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 pieces on mathematics.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in where math has taken us—and where it is headed.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Mathematics for Human Flourishing
  8. How To Play Mathematics
  9. Beauty Is Not All There Is to Aesthetics in Mathematics
  10. The Science of Brute Force
  11. Computational Thinking in Science
  12. Quantum Questions Inspire New Math
  13. Tangled Tangles
  14. The Bizarre World of Nontransitive Dice: Games for Two or More Players
  15. The Bingo Paradox
  16. The Sleeping Beauty Controversy
  17. Wigner’s “Unreasonable Effectiveness” in Context
  18. Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Modeling
  19. Six Essential Questions for Problem Solving
  20. What Does Active Learning Mean for Mathematicians?
  21. Written in Stone: The World’s First Trigonometry Revealed in an Ancient Babylonian Tablet
  22. Quadrivium: The Structure of Mathematics as Described in Isidor of Seville’s Etymologies
  23. The World War II Origins of Mathematics Awareness
  24. The Writing Mathematician
  25. Contributors
  26. Notable Writings
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Credits