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- 260 __ |a Princeton : |b Princeton University Press, |c 2022.
- 008 230902s2022 njuaf b 000 0 eng d
- 020 __ |a 9780691225715: |c CNY804.42
- 020 __ |z 9780691225722 (ebook)
- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)on1285699942
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- 050 00 |a QA7 |b .B47 2022
- 245 04 |a The best writing on mathematics 2021 / |c Mircea Pitici, editor.
- 300 __ |a xv, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 22 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 490 0_ |a The Best Writing on Mathematics
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references.
- 520 8_ |a This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world-and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces collected here. These essays-from leading names and fresh new voices-delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights into its nature, meaning, and practice, and taking readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. Here, Viktor Blasjoe gives a brief history of "lockdown mathematics"; Yelda Nasifoglu decodes the politics of a seventeenth-century play in which the characters are geometric shapes; and Andrew Lewis-Pye explains the basic algorithmic rules and computational procedures behind cryptocurrencies. In other essays, Terence Tao candidly recalls the adventures and misadventures of growing up to become a leading mathematician; Natalie Wolchover shows how old math gives new clues about whether time really flows; and David Hand discusses the problem of "dark data"-information that is missing or ignored. And there is much, much more. -- |c Provided by publisher.
- 700 1_ |a Pitici, Mircea, |d 1965- |e editor.