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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

By: Mircea Pitici

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

By: Mircea Pitici

The year’s finest mathematical writing from around the world 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 Blåsjö 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.

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0691225729

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9780691225722

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

By: Mircea Pitici

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By: Mircea Pitici

The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world This 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 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. Here Ian Hacking discusses the salient features that distinguish mathematics from other disciplines of the mind; Doris Schattschneider identifies some of the mathematical inspirations of M. C. Escher's art; Jordan Ellenberg describes compressed sensing, a mathematical field that is reshaping the way people use large sets of data; Erica Klarreich reports on the use of algorithms in the job market for doctors; and much, much more. In addition to presenting the year's most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a foreword by esteemed physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us—and where it is headed.

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Princeton University Press

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0691153159

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Multi-shell Polyhedral Clusters

By: Mircea Vasile Diudea

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Multi-shell Polyhedral Clusters

By: Mircea Vasile Diudea

This volume presents new methodologies and rationalizes existing methods that are used in the design of multi-shell polyhedral clusters. The author describes how the methods used are extended from 2D-operations on maps to 3D (and higher dimensional) Euclidean space. A variety of structures is designed and described in detail and classified giving rise to an atlas of multi-shell nanostructures. The book therefore sheds a new light on the field of crystal and quasicrystal structures, an important part of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The author goes on to show how the recently established methods are used for building complex multi-shell nanostructures and how this completes the existing information in the field. The atlas of such structures is completed with atomic coordinates (included as supplementary material). The content of this book gives a useful insight into structure elucidation and suggests new material synthesis.

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Springer

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3319641239

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

By: Mircea Pitici

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010

By: Mircea Pitici,William P. Thurston

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010

By: Mircea Pitici,William P. Thurston

This anthology also includes a foreword by esteemed mathematician William Thurston and an informative introduction by Mircea Pitici. --Book Jacket.

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0691148414

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9780691148410

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

By: Mircea Pitici

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Best Writing on Mathematics Twenty Twelve

By: Mircea Pitici

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Best Writing on Mathematics Twenty Twelve

By: Mircea Pitici

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 else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. Here Robert Lang explains mathematical aspects of origami foldings; Terence Tao discusses the frequency and distribution of the prime numbers; Timothy Gowers and Mario Livio ponder whether mathematics is invented or discovered; Brian Hayes describes what is special about a ball in five dimensions; Mark Colyvan glosses on the mathematics of dating; and much, much more. In addition to presenting the year's most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a foreword by esteemed mathematician David Mumford and an introduction by the editor Mircea Pitici. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us--and where it is headed.

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6613969281

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Nostalgia

By: Mircea Cartarescu

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Nostalgia

By: Mircea Cartarescu

Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights 'A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention' Boyd Tonkin, Spectator A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn - with unexpected consequences. Blending reality and symbolism, time and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romania's most celebrated writer.

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Penguin UK

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0141993065

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The Old Man and the Bureaucrats

By: Mircea Eliade

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The Old Man and the Bureaucrats

By: Mircea Eliade

Proposes the means by which the therapist can help validate stepfamilies as viable units, creating integration of old loyalties and new ties. Reprint of the 1979 ed. published by Univ. of Notre Dame Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0226204103

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

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Multi-shell Polyhedral Clusters

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

Best Writing on Mathematics Twenty Twelve

Best Writing on Mathematics Twenty Twelve

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