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• ISBN: 9780691178639
• ISBN: 0691178631
• Physical Description: xvi, 224 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
• Publisher: Princeton ; Princeton University Press, ©2018.
• Copyright: ©2018

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Mathematical products / Philip J. Davis -- The largest known prime number / Evelyn Lamb -- A unified theory of randomness / Kevin Hartnett -- An "infinitely rich" mathematician turns 100 / Siobhan Roberts -- Inverse Yogiisms / Lloyd N. Trefethen -- Ramanujan in bronze / Gerald L. Alexanderson, with contributions from Leonard F. Klosinski -- Creating symmetric fractals / Larry Riddle -- Projective geometry in the moon tilt illusion / Marc Frantz -- Girih for domes: analysis of three Iranian domes / Mohammadhossein Kasraei, Yahta Nourian, and Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad -- Why kids should use their fingers in math class / Jo Boaler and Lang Chen -- Threshold concepts and undergraduate mathematics teaching / Sinéad Breen and Ann O'Shea -- Rising above a cause-and-effect stance in mathematics education research / John Mason -- How to find the logarithm of any number using nothing but a piece of string / Viktor Blâsjö -- Rendering Pacioli's Rhombicuboctahedron / Carlo H. Séquin and Raymond Shiau -- Who would have won the Fields Medal 150 years ago? / Jeremy Gray -- Paradoxes, contradictions, and the limits of science / Noson S. Yanofsky -- Stairway to heaven: the abstract method and levels of abstraction in mathematics / Jean-Pierre Marquis -- Are our brains Bayesian? / Robert Bain -- Great expectations: the past, present, and future of prediction / Graham Southorn.

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Mathematics.