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The year's finest mathematics 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 2017 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 Evelyn Lamb describes the excitement of searching for incomprehensibly large prime numbers, Jeremy Gray speculates about who would have won math's highest prize--the Fields Medal--in the nineteenth century, and Philip Davis looks at mathematical results and artifacts from a business and marketing viewpoint. In other essays, Noson Yanofsky explores the inherent limits of knowledge in mathematical thinking, Jo Boaler and Lang Chen reveal why finger-counting enhances children's receptivity to mathematical ideas, and Carlo Sequin and Raymond Shiau attempt to discover how the Renaissance painter Fra Luca Pacioli managed to convincingly depict his famous rhombicuboctahedron, a twenty-six-sided Archimedean solid. 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.

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Author:   Mircea Pitici
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780691178639

ISBN 10:   0691178631
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   14 November 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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Praise for previous editions: A wonderful and varied bouquet of texts. . . . I highly recommend this book to everyone with an interest in mathematics. --Stephen Buckley, Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin Praise for previous editions: Wonderful.... [C]annot be recommended highly enough! --Robert Schaefer, New York Journal of Books Praise for previous editions: Entertaining and informative. --Ian D. Gordon, Library Journal Praise for previous editions: A volume of unexpectedly fascinating mathematical research, musings, and studies that explore subjects from art to medicine. . . . [R]eaders from many disciplines will find much to pique their interest. --Publishers Weekly

Praise for previous editions: A volume of unexpectedly fascinating mathematical research, musings, and studies that explore subjects from art to medicine... [R]eaders from many disciplines will find much to pique their interest. --Publishers Weekly Praise for previous editions: Entertaining and informative. --Ian D. Gordon, Library Journal Praise for previous editions: Wonderful... [C]annot be recommended highly enough! --Robert Schaefer, New York Journal of Books Praise for previous editions: A wonderful and varied bouquet of texts... I highly recommend this book to everyone with an interest in mathematics. --Stephen Buckley, Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin

Author Information

Mircea Pitici holds a PhD in mathematics education from Cornell University and is a graduate student in library and information science at Syracuse University's iSchool. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.

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