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Best writing on mathematics 2016 / / Mircea Pitici, editor. - 1515/9781400885602. - Princeton, New Jersey : : Princeton University Press,, 2017. - 1 online resource ( час. мин.), 1515/9781400885602. - In English. - URL: https://library.dvfu.ru/lib/document/SK_ELIB/397EE216-0B4C-46D8-859E-3D719829CFDB
. - ISBN 1400885604 (electronic bk.). - ISBN 9781400885602 (electronic bk.)
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Mathematics and Teaching; In Defense of Pure Mathematics; G.H. Hardy: Mathematical Biologist; The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics; Stacking Wine Bottles Revisited; The Way the Billiard Ball Bounces; The Intersection Game; Tonight! Epic Math Battles: Counting vs. Matching; Mathematicians Chase Moonshine's Shadow; The Impenetrable Proof; A Proof That Some Spaces Can't Be Cut; Einstein's First Proof; Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics; The Pioneering Role of the Sierpinski Gasket.
Fractals as PhotographsMath at the Met; Common Sense about the Common Core; Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst; Teaching Applied Mathematics; Circular Reasoning: Who First Proved that C Divided by d Is a Constant?; A Medieval Mystery: Nicole Oresme's Concept of Curvitas; The Myth of Leibniz's Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; The Spirograph and Mathematical Models from Nineteenth-Century Germany; What Does "Depth" Mean in Mathematics?; Finding Errors in Big Data; Programs and Probability; Lottery Perception.
Why Acknowledging Uncertainty Can Make You a Better ScientistFor Want of a Nail: Why Unnecessarily Long Tests May Be Impeding the Progress of Western Civilization; How to Write a General Interest Mathematics Book; Contributors; Notable Writings; Acknowledgments; Credits.
Рубрики: Mathematics.
MATHEMATICS--Essays.
MATHEMATICS--Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS--Reference.
Mathematics.
MATHEMATICS / General
Аннотация: An anthology of the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world, featuring promising new voices as well as some of the foremost names in mathematics.
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Pitici, Mircea, (1965-) \editor.\