The best writing on mathematics. 2019 /
Mircea Pitici, editor.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color)
- The best writing on mathematics ; tenth .
Includes bibliographical references.
Geometry v. gerrymandering / Slicing sandwiches, states, and solar systems : can mathematical tools help determine what divisions are provably fair? / Does mathematics teach how to think? / Abstracting the Rubick's cube / Topology-disturbing objects : a new class of 3D optical illusion / Mathematicians explore mirror link between two geometric worlds / Professor Engel's marvelously improbable machines / The on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences / Mathematics for big data / The un(solv)able problem / The mechanization of mathematics / Mathematics as an empirical phenomenon, subject to modeling / Does 2 + 3 = 5? In defense of a near absurdity / Gregory's sixth operation / Kolmogorov complexity and our search for meaning : what math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives / Ethics in statistical practice and communication : five recommendations / The Fields Medal should return to its roots / The Erd�os paradox / Moon Duchin -- Theodore P. Hill -- Paul J. Campbell -- Roice Nelson -- Kokichi Sugihara -- Kevin Hartnett -- James Propp -- Neil J.A. Sloane -- Alessandro Di Bucchianico, Laura Iapichino, Nelly Litvak, Frank van der Meulen, and Ron Wehrens -- Toby S. Cubitt, David P�erez-Garc�ia, and Michael Wolf -- Jeremy Avigad -- Reuben Hersh -- Mary Leng -- Tiziana Bascelli, Piotr Blaszczyk, Validmir Kanovei, Karin U. Katz, Mikhail G. Katz, Semen S. Kutateladze, Tahl Nowik, David M. Schaps, and David Sherry -- Noson S. Yanofsky -- Andrew Gelman -- Michael J. Barany -- Melvyn B. Nathanson.
The year's finest mathematical 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 2019 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 essays delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights into its nature, meaning, and practice-and taking readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. Here, Moon Duchin explains how geometric-statistical methods can be used to design voting districts, Jeremy Avigad illustrates the growing use of computation in making and verifying mathematical hypotheses, and Kokichi Sugihara describes how to construct geometrical objects with unusual visual properties. In other essays, Neil Sloane presents some recent additions to the vast database of integer sequences he has catalogued, and Alessandro Di Bucchianico and his colleagues highlight how mathematical methods have been successfully applied to big-data problems. And there's much, much more. In addition to presenting the year's most memorable math writing, this must-have anthology includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography of other notable pieces on mathematics. This is a must-read for anyone interested in where math has taken us-and where it is headed.