TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitici,Mircea
TI  - Best writing on mathematics 2016
SN  - 1400885604
AV  - QA8.6 
U1  - 510 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - MATHEMATICS
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Pre-Calculus
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - MATHEMATICS / General
KW  - EBSCO  eBooks
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Mathematics and Teaching; In Defense of Pure Mathematics; G.H. Hardy: Mathematical Biologist; The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics; Stacking Wine Bottles Revisited; The Way the Billiard Ball Bounces; The Intersection Game; Tonight! Epic Math Battles: Counting vs. Matching; Mathematicians Chase Moonshine's Shadow; The Impenetrable Proof; A Proof That Some Spaces Can't Be Cut; Einstein's First Proof; Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics; The Pioneering Role of the Sierpinski Gasket; Fractals as PhotographsMath at the Met; Common Sense about the Common Core; Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst; Teaching Applied Mathematics; Circular Reasoning: Who First Proved that C Divided by d Is a Constant?; A Medieval Mystery: Nicole Oresme's Concept of Curvitas; The Myth of Leibniz's Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; The Spirograph and Mathematical Models from Nineteenth-Century Germany; What Does "Depth" Mean in Mathematics?; Finding Errors in Big Data; Programs and Probability; Lottery Perception; Why Acknowledging Uncertainty Can Make You a Better ScientistFor Want of a Nail: Why Unnecessarily Long Tests May Be Impeding the Progress of Western Civilization; How to Write a General Interest Mathematics Book; Contributors; Notable Writings; Acknowledgments; Credits
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.lib.tsu.ru/limit/2023/EBSCO/1433603.pdf
ER  -