The best writing on mathematics 2012
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere el...
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| Médium: | Livre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Princeton [u.a.] :
Princeton University Press
2011.
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès INSA CVL |
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Notes bibliogr. La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 321 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus Sciences de l'ingénieur Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus Sciences de l'ingénieur |
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- A Continuous Path from High School Calculus to University AnalysisMathematics Teachers' Subtle, Complex Disciplinary Knowledge; How to Be a Good Teacher Is an Undecidable Problem; How Your Philosophy of Mathematics Impacts Your Teaching; Variables in Mathematics Education; Bottom Line on Mathematics Education; History of Mathematics and History of Science Reunited?; Augustus De Morgan behind the Scenes; Routing Problems: A Historical Perspective; The Cycloid and Jean Bernoulli; Was Cantor Surprised?; Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?; Ultimate Logic: To Infinity and Beyond
- Cover; The BEST WRITING on MATHEMATICS 2012; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: The Synergy of Pure and Applied Mathematics, of the Abstract and the Concrete; Introduction; Why Math Works; Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?; The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics; An Adventure in the Nth Dimension; Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers; The Strangest Numbers in String Theory; Mathematics Meets Photography: The Viewable Sphere; Dancing Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance; Can One Hear the Sound of a Theorem?; Flat-Unfoldability and Woven Origami Tessellations
- Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It's All in the GameContributors; Notable Texts; Acknowledgments; Credits