00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217610932130 Buklod 20130906132236.0 aa r ||| u ta 100716s2011 njua rb |000 0|eng d 9780691148410 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0691148414 (pbk. : alk. paper) (iLib)UPD-00205804553 DECON eng DMLUC QA 1 B47 2011 The best writing on mathematics 2010 Mircea Pitici, editor. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press c2011. xxviii, 407 p. ill. Mathematics alive. The role of the untrue in mathematics / Chandler Davis ; Desperately seeking mathematical proof / Melvyn B. Nathanson ; An enduring error / Branko Grünbaum ; What is experimental mathematics? / Keith Devlin ; What is information-based complexity? / Henryk Woz̓niakowski ; What is financial mathematics? / Tim Johnson ; If mathematics is a language, how do you swear in it? /David Wagner -- Mathematicians and the practice of mathematics. Birds and frogs / Freeman Dyson ; Mathematics is no a game but-- / Robert Thomas ; Massively collaborative mathematics / Timothy Gowers and Michael Nielsen ; Bridging the two cultures: Paul Valéry ; Philip J. Davis ; A hidden praise of mathematics / Alicia Dickenstein -- Mathematics and its applications. Mathematics and the internet: a source of enormous confusion and great potential / Walter Willinger, David L. Alderson, and John C. Doyle ; The higher arithmetic: how to count to a zillion without falling off the end of the number line / Brian Hayes ; Knowing when to stop: how to gamble if you must--the mathematics of optimal stopping / Theodore P. Hill ; Homology: an idea whose time has come / Barry A. Cipra -- Mathematics education. Adolescent learning and secondary mathematics / Anne Watson ; Accommodations of learning disabilities in mathematics courses / Kathleen Ambruso Acker, Mary W. Gray, and Behzad Jalali ; Audience, style and criticism / David Pimm and Nathalie Sinclair ; Aesthetics as a liberating force in mathematics education? / Nathalie Sinclair ; Mathematics textbooks and their potential role in supporting misconceptions / Ann Kajander and Miroslav Lovric ; Exploring curvature with paper models / Howard. T. Iseri ; Intuitive vs analytical thinking: four perspectives / Uri Leron and Orit Hazzan -- History and philosophy of mathematics. Why did Lagrange "Prove"the parallel postulate? / Judith V. Grabiner ; Kronecker's algorithmic mathematics / Harold M. Edwards ; Indiscrete variations on Gian-Carlo Rota's themes / Carlo Cellucci ; Circle packing: a personal reminiscence / Philip L. Bowers ; Applying inconsistent mathematics / Mark Colyvan ; Why do we believe theorems? / Andrzej Pelc -- Mathematics in the media. Mathematicians solve 45-year- old Kervaire invariant puzzle / Erica Klarreich ; Darwin: the reluctant mathematician / Julie Rehmeyer ; Loves me, loves me not (do the math) / Steven Strogatz ; The mysterious equilibrium of zombies and other things mathematicians see at the movies / Samuel Arbesman ; Strength in numbers: on mathematics and musical rhythm / Vijay Iyer ; Math-hattan / Mick Paumgarten. 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. Mathematics Periodicals. Pitici, Mircea 1965-. FO Monograph UPD DECON QA 1 B47 2011 Book