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 Blasjoe 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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