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xvi, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Mathematical products / Philip J. Davis -- The largest known prime number / Evelyn Lamb -- A unified theory of randomness / Kevin Hartnett -- An "infinitely rich" mathematician turns 100 / Siobhan Roberts -- Inverse Yogiisms / Lloyd N. Trefethen -- Ramanujan in bronze / Gerald L. Alexanderson, with contributions from Leonard F. Klosinski -- Creating symmetric fractals / Larry Riddle -- Projective geometry in the moon tilt illusion / Marc Frantz -- Girih for domes: analysis of three Iranian domes / Mohammadhossein Kasraei, Yahta Nourian, and Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad -- Why kids should use their fingers in math class / Jo Boaler and Lang Chen -- Threshold concepts and undergraduate mathematics teaching / Sinéad Breen and Ann O'Shea -- Rising above a cause-and-effect stance in mathematics education research / John Mason -- How to find the logarithm of any number using nothing but a piece of string / Viktor Blâsjö -- Rendering Pacioli's Rhombicuboctahedron / Carlo H. Séquin and Raymond Shiau -- Who would have won the Fields Medal 150 years ago? / Jeremy Gray -- Paradoxes, contradictions, and the limits of science / Noson S. Yanofsky -- Stairway to heaven: the abstract method and levels of abstraction in mathematics / Jean-Pierre Marquis -- Are our brains Bayesian? / Robert Bain -- Great expectations: the past, present, and future of prediction / Graham Southorn. |
| Summary |
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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Mathematics.
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Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
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| Added Author |
Pitici, Mircea, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780691178639 |
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0691178631 |
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