The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Pitici, Mircea -- Geometry v. Gerrymandering / Duchin, Moon -- Slicing Sandwiches, States, and Solar Systems: Can Mathematical Tools Help Determine What Divisions Are Provably Fair? / Hill, Theodore P. -- Does Mathematics Teach How to Think? / Campbell, Paul...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Pitici, Mircea -- Geometry v. Gerrymandering / Duchin, Moon -- Slicing Sandwiches, States, and Solar Systems: Can Mathematical Tools Help Determine What Divisions Are Provably Fair? / Hill, Theodore P. -- Does Mathematics Teach How to Think? / Campbell, Paul J. -- Abstracting the Rubik's Cube / Nelson, Roice -- Topology-Disturbing Objects: A New Class of 3D Optical Illusion / Sugihara, Kokichi -- Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link between Two Geometric Worlds / Hartnett, Kevin -- Professor Engel's Marvelously Improbable Machines / Propp, James -- The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences / Sloane, Neil J. A. -- Mathematics for Big Data / Di Bucchianico, lessandro / Iapichino, Laura / Litvak, Nelly / Meulen, Frank van der / Wehrens, Ron -- The Un(solv)able Problem / Cubitt, Toby S. / Pérez-García, David / Wolf, Michael -- The Mechanization of Mathematics / Avigad, Jeremy -- Mathematics as an Empirical Phenomenon, Subject to Modeling / Hersh, Reuben -- Does 2 + 3 = 5? In Defense of a Near Absurdity / Leng, Mary -- Gregory's Sixth Operation / Bascelli, Tiziana / Błaszczyk, Piotr / Kanovei, Vladimir / Katz, Karin U. / Katz, Mikhail G. / Kutateladze, Semen S. / Nowik, Tahl / Schaps, David M. / Sherry, David -- Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning: What Math Can Teach Us about Finding Order in our Chaotic Lives / Yanofsky, Noson S. -- Ethics in Statistical Practice and Communication: Five Recommendations / Gelman, Andrew -- The Fields Medal Should Return to Its Roots / Barany, Michael J. -- The Erdős Paradox / Nathanson, Melvyn B. -- Contributors -- Notable Writings -- Acknowledgments -- Credits Ausführliche Beschreibung