Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Mircea Pitici -- Mathematics and teaching / Hyman Bass -- In defense of pure mathematics / Daniel S. Silver -- G.H. Hardy : mathematical biologist / Hannah Elizabeth Christenson & Stephan Ramon Garcia -- The reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics / Derek Abbott -- Stacking wine bottles revisited / Burkard Polster -- The way the billiard ball bounces / Joshua Bowman -- The intersection game / Burkard Polster -- Tonight! Epic math battles : counting vs. matching / Jennifer J. Quinn -- Mathematicians chase moonshine's shadow / Erica Klarreich -- The impenetrable proof / Davide Castelvecchi -- A proof that some spaces can't be cut / Kevin Hartnett -- Einstein's first proof / Steven Strogatz -- Why string theory still offers hope we can unify physics / Brian Greene -- The pioneering role of the Sierpinski gasket / Tanya Khovanova, Eric Nie, & Alok Puranik -- Fractals as photographs / Marc Frantz -- Math at the Met / Joseph Dauben & Marjorie Senechal -- Common sense about the common core / Alan H. Schoenfeld -- Explaining your math : unnecessary at best, encumbering at worst / Katharine Beals & Barry Garelick -- Teaching applied mathematics / David Acheson, Peter R. Turner, Gilbert Strang, & Rachel Levy -- Circular reasoning : who first proved that C divided by d Is a constant? / David Richeson -- A medieval mystery : Nicole Oresme's concept of curvitas / Isabel M. Serrano & Bogdan D. Suceava -- The myth of Leibniz's proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus / Viktor Blasjo -- The Spirograph and mathematical models from nineteenth-century Germany / Amy Shell-Gellasch -- What does "depth" mean in mathematics? / John Stillwell -- Finding errors in big data / Marco Puts, Piet Daas, & Ton de Waal -- Programs and probability / Brian Hayes -- Lottery perception / Jorge Almeida -- Why acknowledging uncertainty can make you a better scientist / Andrew Gelman -- For want of a nail : why unnecessarily long tests may be impeding the progress of western civilization / Howard Wainer & Richard Feinberg -- How to write a general interest mathematics book / Ian Stewart.

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.

In English.

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