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The year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis 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 2018 makes available to a wide audience many pieces 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.James Grime shows how to build subtly mischievous dice for playing slightly unfair games, David Rowe investigates the many different meanings and pedigrees of mathematical models, and Michael Barany traces how our appreciation of the societal importance of mathematics has developed since World War II. In other essays, Francis Su extolls the inherent values of learning, doing, and sharing mathematics, and Margaret Wertheim takes us on a mathematical exploration of the mind and the world-with glimpses at science, philosophy, music, art, and even crocheting. 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.

Mathematics --- Accuracy and precision. --- Alan Turing. --- Algebra I. --- Algebra II. --- Algebra. --- American Mathematical Society. --- Applied mathematics. --- Approximation algorithm. --- Arithmetic. --- Big Science. --- Boolean satisfiability problem. --- Calculation. --- Candidate solution. --- Combinatorial proof. --- Computational geometry. --- Computational mathematics. --- Computational science. --- Computer Science Teachers Association. --- Computer scientist. --- David Hilbert. --- Discrete mathematics. --- Dynamic programming. --- Education. --- Educational Studies in Mathematics. --- Experimental mathematics. --- Foundations of mathematics. --- Fundamental theorem of algebra. --- Geometry. --- Gödel's incompleteness theorems. --- Hardness of approximation. --- Heuristic. --- Hilbert space. --- Homological mirror symmetry. --- Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling. --- International Mathematical Union. --- Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. --- Language of mathematics. --- Learning sciences. --- Liberal arts education. --- Linear algebra. --- Logic. --- London Mathematical Society. --- MIT Mathematics Department. --- Mathematica. --- Mathematical Association of America. --- Mathematical Reviews. --- Mathematical analysis. --- Mathematical and theoretical biology. --- Mathematical beauty. --- Mathematical logic. --- Mathematical physics. --- Mathematical practice. --- Mathematical problem. --- Mathematical proof. --- Mathematical sciences. --- Mathematical software. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics education. --- Mathematics. --- Meaningful learning. --- New Math. --- Nobel Prize in Physics. --- Number theory. --- Numerical analysis. --- Open problem. --- Optimization problem. --- Philosophy of mathematics. --- Prime number. --- Proof by exhaustion. --- Proof complexity. --- Propositional calculus. --- Pure mathematics. --- Pythagorean theorem. --- Quadratic formula. --- Quantum geometry. --- Ramsey theory. --- Rational trigonometry. --- Recreational mathematics. --- Reverse mathematics. --- Riemann hypothesis. --- Riemannian geometry. --- Robustness (computer science). --- Satisfiability modulo theories. --- Schur's theorem. --- Science education. --- Sign (mathematics). --- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. --- Solver. --- The College Mathematics Journal. --- The Mathematical Experience. --- The Mathematical Intelligencer. --- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. --- The Value of Science. --- Theoretical computer science. --- Topological combinatorics. --- Traditional mathematics. --- Trigonometric tables. --- Turing machine. --- Variable (mathematics). --- Writing.