LEADER 00000cam 2200829Ii 4500 001 ocn864383076 003 OCoLC 005 20190628081008.2 006 m o d 007 cr cnu|||||||| 008 131129t20142014njua ob 000 0 eng d 020 9781400847990|q(electronic book) 020 1400847990|q(electronic book) 020 9781306154161|q(electronic book) 020 1306154162|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780691160412|q(paperback) 020 |z0691160414|q(paperback) 035 (OCoLC)864383076|z(OCoLC)869745474|z(OCoLC)880237643 040 IDEBK|beng|erda|epn|cIDEBK|dCDX|dEBLCP|dJSTOR|dN$T|dYDXCP |dDEBSZ|dMHW|dUMI|dOCLCQ|dJSTOR|dORU|dCOO|dDEBBG|dOCLCQ |dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dOTZ|dOCLCQ|dWAU|dOCLCO|dCOCUF|dK6U|dPIFAG |dFVL|dZCU|dMERUC|dOCLCQ|dIOG|dNJR|dU3W|dEZ9|dOCLCQ|dUUM |dSTF|dOCLCQ|dCEF|dICG|dTXC|dINT|dVT2|dOCLCQ|dWYU|dLVT |dTKN|dOCLCQ|dUAB|dDKC|dOCLCQ 049 MAIN 050 4 QA36 082 04 510.0|b23 245 00 Best writing on mathematics 2013 /|cMircea Pitici, editor ; foreword by Roger Penrose. 264 1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2014] 264 4 |c©2014 300 1 online resource (xxvi, 224 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 data file|2rda 505 0 Foreword / Roger Penrose -- Introduction / Mircea Pitici - - The prospects for mathematics in a multimedia civilization / Philip J. Davis -- Fearful symmetry / Ian Stewart -- E pluribus unum : from complexity, universality / Terence Tao -- Degrees of separation / Gregory Goth -- Randomness / Charles Seife -- Randomness in music / Donald E. Knuth -- Playing the odds / Soren Johnson -- Machines of the infinite / John Pavlus -- Bridges, string art, and Bézier curves / Renan Gross -- Slicing a cone for art and science / Daniel S. Silver -- High fashion meets higher mathematics / Kelly Delp -- The Jordan curve theorem is nontrivial / Fiona Ross and William T. Ross -- Why mathematics? What mathematics? / Anna Sfard -- Math anxiety : who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it / Erin A. Maloney and Sian L. Beilock -- How old are the platonic solids? / David R. Lloyd -- Early modern mathematical instruments / Jim Bennett -- A revolution in mathematics? What really happened a century ago and why it matters today / Frank Quinn -- Errors of probability in historical context / Prakash Gorroochurn -- The end of probability / Elie Ayache -- An abc proof too tough even for mathematicians / Kevin Hartnett. 506 1 Unlimited number of concurrent users.|5UkHlHU 650 0 Mathematics. 650 0 Mathematics|vPopular works. 700 1 Pitici, Mircea,|d1965- 700 1 Penrose, Roger, 856 40 |uhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt4cgb74 921 . 936 JSTOREBA2018/19