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The best writing on mathematics. 2020 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Pitici, Mircea, 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Series:The best writing in mathematics ; 11
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Outsmarting a virus with math
  • Uncertainty
  • The inescapable casino
  • Resolving the fuel economy singularity
  • The median voter theorem : why politicians move to the center
  • The math that takes Newton into the quantum world
  • Decades-old computer science conjecture solved in two pages
  • The three-body problem
  • The intrigues and delights of Kleinian and quasi-Fuchsian limit sets
  • Mathematical treasures from Sid Sackson
  • The amazing math inside the Rubik's Cube
  • What is a hyperbolic 3-manifold?
  • Higher dimensional geometries : what are they good for?
  • Who mourns the tenth Heegner number?
  • On your mark, get set, multiply
  • 1994, the year calculus was born
  • Gauss's computation of the Easter date
  • Mathematical knowledge and reality
  • The ins and outs of mathematical explanation
  • Statistical intervals, not statistical significance
  • Contributors
  • Notable writings
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits