The Best Writing on Mathematics Ser.: Best Writing on Mathematics 2021 by ...

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021Author(s): Mircea Pitici\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691225708, 978-0691225708\nSynopsis\nThe years finest mathematical writing from around the world\n\nThis annual anthology brings together the years finest mathematics writing from around the worldand you dont need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces collected here. These essaysfrom leading names and fresh new voicesdelve 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 todays hottest mathematical debates.\n\nHere, Viktor Blsj 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 .