| dc.contributor.author |
Pitici Mircea |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2024-01-26T21:31:18Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2024-01-26T21:31:18Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2017 |
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| dc.identifier.citation |
Best writing on mathematics 2016 - Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017 - 1 online resource - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/1433603.pdf |
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| dc.identifier.isbn |
1400885604 |
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| dc.identifier.isbn |
9781400885602 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/178195 |
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| dc.description |
In English. |
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| dc.description.abstract |
An anthology of the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world, featuring promising new voices as well as some of the foremost names in mathematics. |
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| dc.description.tableofcontents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Mathematics and Teaching; In Defense of Pure Mathematics; G.H. Hardy: Mathematical Biologist; The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics; Stacking Wine Bottles Revisited; The Way the Billiard Ball Bounces; The Intersection Game; Tonight! Epic Math Battles: Counting vs. Matching; Mathematicians Chase Moonshine's Shadow; The Impenetrable Proof; A Proof That Some Spaces Can't Be Cut; Einstein's First Proof; Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics; The Pioneering Role of the Sierpinski Gasket. |
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| dc.description.tableofcontents |
Fractals as PhotographsMath at the Met; Common Sense about the Common Core; Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst; Teaching Applied Mathematics; Circular Reasoning: Who First Proved that C Divided by d Is a Constant?; A Medieval Mystery: Nicole Oresme's Concept of Curvitas; The Myth of Leibniz's Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; The Spirograph and Mathematical Models from Nineteenth-Century Germany; What Does "Depth" Mean in Mathematics?; Finding Errors in Big Data; Programs and Probability; Lottery Perception. |
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| dc.description.tableofcontents |
Why Acknowledging Uncertainty Can Make You a Better ScientistFor Want of a Nail: Why Unnecessarily Long Tests May Be Impeding the Progress of Western Civilization; How to Write a General Interest Mathematics Book; Contributors; Notable Writings; Acknowledgments; Credits. |
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| dc.language |
English |
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| dc.language.iso |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press |
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| dc.subject.other |
Mathematics. |
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| dc.subject.other |
MATHEMATICS -- Essays. |
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| dc.subject.other |
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus. |
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| dc.subject.other |
MATHEMATICS -- Reference. |
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| dc.subject.other |
Mathematics. |
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| dc.subject.other |
MATHEMATICS / General |
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| dc.subject.other |
Electronic books. |
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| dc.title |
Best writing on mathematics 2016/ Mircea Pitici, editor. |
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| dc.type |
Book |
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| dc.description.pages |
1 online resource |
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| dc.collection |
Электронно-библиотечные системы |
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| dc.source.id |
EN05CEBSCO05C103091 |
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