The best writing on mathematics, 2011:
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press c2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
What is mathematics for? / Underwood Dudley -- A tisket, a tasket, an Apollonian gasket / Dana Mackenzie -- The quest for God's number / Rik van Grol -- Meta-morphism : from graduate student to networked mathematician / Andrew Schultz -- One, two, many : individuality and collectivity in mathematics / Melvyn B. Nathanson -- Reflections on the decline of mathematical tables / Martin Campbell-Kelly -- Under-represented, then over-represented : a memoir of Jews in American mathematics / Reuben Hersh -- Did over-reliance on mathematical models for risk assessment create the financial crisis? / David J. Hand -- Fill in the blanks : using math to turn lo-res datasets into hi-res samples / Jordan Ellenberg -- The great principles of computing / Peter J. Denning -- Computer generation of ribbed sculptures / James Hamlin and Carlo H. Séquin -- Lorenz system offers manifold possibilities for art / Barry A. Cipra -- The mathematical side of M.C. Escher / Doris Schattschneider -- Celebrating mathematics in stone and bronze / Helaman Ferguson and Claire Ferguson -- Mathematics education : theory, practice, and memories over 50 years / John Mason -- Thinking and comprehending in the mathematics classroom / Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Heather Anderson -- Teaching research : encouraging discoveries / Francis Edward Su -- Reflections of an accidental theorist / Alan H. Schoenfeld -- The conjoint origin of proof and theoretical physics / Hans Niels Jahnke -- What makes mathematics mathematics? / Ian Hacking -- What anti-realism in philosophy of mathematics must offer / Feng Ye -- Seeing numbers / Ivan M. Havel -- Autism and mathematical talent / Ioan James -- How much math is too much math? / Chris J. Budd and Rob Eastaway -- Hidden dimensions / Marianne Freiberger -- Playing with matches / Erica Klarreich
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 383 p.)
ISBN:0691153159
1400839548
9780691153155
9781400839544

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