The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

The year's finest mathematical writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year's finest...
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Author: Mircea Pitici
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Language: English
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021 by Pitici, Mircea

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

BD$213.28

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

BD$213.28
Author: Mircea Pitici
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces collected here. These essays--from leading names and fresh new voices--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, Viktor Blåsjö gives a brief history of "lockdown mathematics"; Yelda Nasifoglu decodes the politics of a seventeenth-century play in which the characters are geometric shapes; and Andrew Lewis-Pye explains the basic algorithmic rules and computational procedures behind cryptocurrencies. In other essays, Terence Tao candidly recalls the adventures and misadventures of growing up to become a leading mathematician; Natalie Wolchover shows how old math gives new clues about whether time really flows; and David Hand discusses the problem of "dark data"--information that is missing or ignored. And there is much, much more.

Author: Mircea Pitici
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 07/19/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.43w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780691225715

About the Author
Mircea Pitici teaches mathematics at Syracuse University and has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010. Twitter @MPitici

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