Geometry v. gerrymandering / Moon Duchin -- Slicing sandwiches, states, and solar systems : can mathematical tools help determine what divisions are provably fair? / Theodore P. Hill -- Does mathematics teach how to think? / Paul J. Campbell -- Abstracting the Rubick's cube / Roice Nelson -- Topology-disturbing objects : a new class of 3D optical illusion / Kokichi Sugihara -- Mathematicians explore mirror link between two geometric worlds / Kevin Hartnett -- Professor Engel's marvelously improbable machines / James Propp -- The on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences / Neil J.A. Sloane -- Mathematics for big data / Alessandro Di Bucchianico, Laura Iapichino, Nelly Litvak, Frank van der Meulen, and Ron Wehrens -- The un(solv)able problem / Toby S. Cubitt, David P�erez-Garc�ia, and Michael Wolf -- The mechanization of mathematics / Jeremy Avigad -- Mathematics as an empirical phenomenon, subject to modeling / Reuben Hersh -- Does 2 + 3 = 5? In defense of a near absurdity / Mary Leng -- Gregory's sixth operation / Tiziana Bascelli, Piotr Blaszczyk, Validmir Kanovei, Karin U. Katz, Mikhail G. Katz, Semen S. Kutateladze, Tahl Nowik, David M. Schaps, and David Sherry -- Kolmogorov complexity and our search for meaning : what math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives / Noson S. Yanofsky -- Ethics in statistical practice and communication : five recommendations / Andrew Gelman -- The Fields Medal should return to its roots / Michael J. Barany -- The Erd�os paradox / Melvyn B. Nathanson.

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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. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019 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 essays 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, Moon Duchin explains how geometric-statistical methods can be used to design voting districts, Jeremy Avigad illustrates the growing use of computation in making and verifying mathematical hypotheses, and Kokichi Sugihara describes how to construct geometrical objects with unusual visual properties. In other essays, Neil Sloane presents some recent additions to the vast database of integer sequences he has catalogued, and Alessandro Di Bucchianico and his colleagues highlight how mathematical methods have been successfully applied to big-data problems. And there's much, much more. In addition to presenting the year's most memorable math writing, this must-have anthology includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography of other notable pieces on mathematics. This is a must-read for anyone interested in where math has taken us-and where it is headed.

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