The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Pitici, Mircea -- A Dusty Discipline / Barany, Michael J. / MacKenzie, Donald -- How Puzzles Made Us Human / Mutalik, Pradeep -- Let the Games Continue / Mulcahy, Colm / Richards, Dana -- Challenging Magic Squares for Magicians / Benjamin, Arthur T. / Brown,...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Pitici, Mircea -- A Dusty Discipline / Barany, Michael J. / MacKenzie, Donald -- How Puzzles Made Us Human / Mutalik, Pradeep -- Let the Games Continue / Mulcahy, Colm / Richards, Dana -- Challenging Magic Squares for Magicians / Benjamin, Arthur T. / Brown, Ethan J. -- Candy Crush's Puzzling Mathematics / Walsh, Toby -- Chaos on the Billiard Table / Freiberger, Marianne -- Juggling with Numbers / Tou, Erik R. -- The Quest for Randomness / Aaronson, Scott -- Synthetic Biology, Real Mathematics / Mackenzie, Dana -- At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law / Wolchover, Natalie -- Twisted Math and Beautiful Geometry / Maor, Eli / Jost, Eugen -- Kenichi Miura's Water Wheel, or The Dance of the Shapes of Constant Width / Polster, Burkard -- Dürer: Disguise, Distance, Disagreements, and Diagonals! / Crannell, Annalisa / Frantz, Marc / Futamura, Fumiko -- The Quaternion Group as a Symmetry Group / Hart, Vi / Segerman, Henry -- The Steiner- Lehmus Angle- Bisector Theorem / Conway, John / Ryba, Alex -- Key Ideas and Memorability in Proof / Hanna, Gila / Mason, John -- The Future of High School Mathematics / Fey, Jim / Garfunkel, Sol / Briars, Diane / Isaacs, Andy / Pollak, Henry / Robinson, Eric / Scheaffer, Richard / Schoenfeld, Alan / Seeley, Cathy / Teague, Dan / Usiskin, Zalman -- Demystifying the Math Myth: Analyzing the Contributing Factors for the Achievement Gap between Chinese and U.S. Students / Zhang, Guili / Padilla, Miguel A. -- The Pigeonhole Principle, Two Centuries before Dirichlet / Rittaud, Benoît / Heeffer, Albrecht -- A Prehistory of Nim / Rougetet, Lisa -- Gödel, Gentzen, Goodstein: The Magic Sound of a G- String / Plato, Jan von -- Global and Local / Franklin, James -- Mathematical Beauty, Understanding, and Discovery / Cellucci, Carlo -- A Guide for the Perplexed: What Mathematicians Need to Know to Understand Philosophers of Mathematics / Balaguer, Mark -- Writing about Math for the Perplexed and the Traumatized / Strogatz, Steven -- Is Big Data Enough? A Reflection on the Changing Role of Mathematics in Applications / Napoletani, Domenico / Panza, Marco / Struppa, Daniele C. -- The Statistical Crisis in Science / Gelman, Andrew / Loken, Eric -- Statistics and the Ontario Lottery Retailer Scandal / Rosenthal, Jeffrey S. -- Never Say Never / Hand, David J. -- Contributors -- Notable Writings -- Acknowledgments -- Credits Ausführliche Beschreibung