The best writing on mathematics 2012

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...

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1. Verfasser: Pitici, Mircea
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2012
Ausgabe:1
Schriftenreihe:The Best Writing on Mathematics
Schlagworte:
Addition
Algorithm
American Mathematical Society
Applied mathematics
Augustus De Morgan
Axiom
Calculation
Classroom
Complex number
Conjecture
Continuum hypothesis
Cornell University
Counterexample
Counting
Curriculum
David Hilbert
Defection
Diameter
Dimension
Equation
Essays
Explanation
Geometry
Georg Cantor
Integer
Jeremy Gray
John C. Baez
Learning
Lecture
Logic
Mathematical logic
Mathematical problem
Mathematical theory
Mathematician
MATHEMATICS
MATHEMATICS / Essays
Mathematics education
Natural number
Non-Euclidean geometry
Nonlinear system
Number theory
Octonion
Parity (mathematics)
PDZ
Philosopher
Philosophy of mathematics
Physicist
Prime number
Probability
Pure mathematics
Quantity
Quantum mechanics
Quaternion
Ramchundra
Real number
Scientist
Set theory
Stag hunt
Stereographic projection
String theory
Suggestion
Supersymmetry
Tessellation
Textbook
Theorem
Theoretical physics
Theory
Three-dimensional space (mathematics)
Timothy Gowers
Two-dimensional space
Variable (mathematics)
William Rowan Hamilton
Writing
Lecture
Explanation
Stag hunt
Counterexample
Octonion
Learning
Suggestion
Mathematical theory
Defection
Calculation
Two-dimensional space
Axiom
John C. Baez
String theory
Jeremy Gray
Addition
Real number
Augustus De Morgan
Nonlinear system
Conjecture
Scientist
Mathematical problem
Philosopher
Mathematics education
Algorithm
Cornell University
Ramchundra
Non-Euclidean geometry
Tessellation
Theoretical physics
Textbook
Prime number
Counting
Natural number
Supersymmetry
Philosophy of mathematics
William Rowan Hamilton
Theory
Quaternion
Mathematics
Three-dimensional space (mathematics)
Pure mathematics
Classroom
Theorem
Logic
Physicist
Continuum hypothesis
Diameter
Timothy Gowers
Probability
Quantity
Equation
Dimension
Mathematician
Complex number
Geometry
Variable (mathematics)
Integer
Georg Cantor
David Hilbert
Parity (mathematics)
Applied mathematics
Quantum mechanics
Writing
Set theory
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical logic
Curriculum
Stereographic projection
Number theory
ISBN:9780691156552, 0691156557, 1400844673, 9781400844678
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Zusammenfassung: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 discusses the frequency and distribution of the prime numbers; Timothy Gowers and Mario Livio ponder whether mathematics is invented or discovered; Brian Hayes describes what is special about a ball in five dimensions; Mark Colyvan glosses on the mathematics of dating; and much, much more. In addition to presenting the year's most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a foreword by esteemed mathematician David Mumford 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.
ISBN:9780691156552
0691156557
1400844673
9781400844678
DOI:10.1515/9781400844678