Best Writing on Mathematics 2012

Name: Best Writing on Mathematics 2012
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ISBN: 9780691156552

ISBN-10: 0691156557

ISBN-13: 9780691156552

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mircea Pitici, David Mumford

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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 2012makes 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 Robert Lang explains mathematical aspects of origami foldings; Terence Tao…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Mircea Pitici teaches mathematics and writing at Cornell University, where he is a PhD candidate in math education. He has edited "The Best Writing on Mathematics" since 2010.



Foreword: The Synergy of Pure and Applied Mathematics, of the Abstract and the Concrete



Introduction



Why Math Works



Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?



The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics



An Adventure in the Nth Dimension



Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers



The Strangest Numbers in String Theory



Mathematics Meets Photography: The Viewable Sphere



Dancing Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance



Can One Hear the Sound of a Theorem?



Flat-Unfoldability and Woven Origami Tessellations



A Continuous Path from High School Calculus to University Analysis



Mathematics Teachers' Subtle, Complex Disciplinary Knowledge



How to Be a Good Teacher Is an Undecidable Problem



How Your Philosophy of Mathematics Impacts Your Teaching



Variables in Mathematics Education



Bottom Line on Mathematics Education



History of Mathematics and History of Science Reunited?



Augustus De Morgan behind the Scenes



Routing Problems: A Historical Perspective



The Cycloid and Jean Bernoulli



Was Cantor Surprised?



Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?



Ultimate Logic: To Infinity and Beyond



Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It's All in the Game



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