Pitici The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4467-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 320 Seiten

Reihe: The Best Writing on Mathematics

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitici, Mircea

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mumford, David

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: The Synergy of Pure and Applied Mathematics, of the Abstract and the Concrete David Mumford ix
Introduction  Mircea Pitici xvii
Why Math Works Mario Livio 1
Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?  Timothy Gowers 8
The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics  Peter Rowlett 21
An Adventure in the Nth Dimension Brian Hayes 30
Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers  Terence Tao 43
The Strangest Numbers in String Theory  John C. Baez and John Huerta 50
Mathematics Meets Photography: The Viewable Sphere  David Swart and Bruce Torrence 61
Dancing Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance  Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Karl Schaffer 79
Can One Hear the Sound of a Theorem?  Rob Schneiderman 93
Flat-Unfoldability and Woven Origami Tessellations  Robert J. Lang 113
A Continuous Path from High School Calculus to University Analysis  Timothy Gowers 129
Mathematics Teachers' Subtle, Complex Disciplinary Knowledge  Brent Davis 135
How to Be a Good Teacher Is an Undecidable Problem  Erica Flapan 141
How Your Philosophy of Mathematics Impacts Your Teaching  Bonnie Gold 149
Variables in Mathematics Education  Susanna S. Epp 163
Bottom Line on Mathematics Education  David Mumford and Sol Garfunkel 173
History of Mathematics and History of Science Reunited?  Jeremy Gray 176
Augustus De Morgan behind the Scenes  Charlotte Simmons 186
Routing Problems: A Historical Perspective  Giuseppe Bruno, Andrea Genovese, and Gennaro Improta 197
The Cycloid and Jean Bernoulli  Gerald L. Alexanderson 209
Was Cantor Surprised? Fernando Q. Gouvêa 216
Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All? Ian Hacking 234
Ultimate Logic: To Infinity and Beyond Richard Elwes 255
Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It's All in the Game Mark Colyvan 262
Contributors 273
Notable Texts 281
Acknowledgments 285
Credits 287

Über Autor(innen)

Mircea Pitici holds a PhD mathematics education from Cornell University, where he teaches math and writing. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.