Pitici Mircea (ed.) The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. — 434 p.ForewordThe Role of the Untrue in Mathematics
Desperately Seeking Mathematical Proof
An Enduring Error
What Is Experimental Mathematics?
What Is Information-Based Complexity?
What Is Financial Mathematics?
If Mathematics Is a Language, How Do You Swear in It?
Birds and Frogs
Mathematics Is Not a Game But...
Massively Collaborative Mathematics
Bridging the Two Cultures: Paul Valéry
A Hidden Praise of Mathematics
Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Confusion and Great Potential
The Higher Arithmetic: How to Count to a Zillion without Falling Off the End of the Number Line
Knowing When to Stop: How to Gamble if You Must \em The Mathematics of Optimal Stopping
Homology: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Adolescent Learning and Secondary Mathematics
Accommodations of Learning Disabilities in Mathematics Courses
Audience, Style and Criticism
Aesthetics as a Liberating Force in Mathematics Education?
Mathematics Textbooks and Their Potential Role in Supporting Misconceptions
Exploring Curvature with Paper Models
Intuitive vs Analytical Thinking: Four Perspectives
Why Did Lagrange \l"Prove\r" the Parallel Postulate?
Kronecker's Algorithmic Mathematics
Indiscrete Variations on Gian-Carlo Rota's Themes
Circle Packing: A Personal Reminiscence
Applying Inconsistent Mathematics
Why Do We Believe Theorems?
Mathematicians Solve 45-Year-Old Kervaire Invariant Puzzle
Darwin: The Reluctant Mathematician
Loves Me, Loves Me Not (Do the Math)
The Mysterious Equilibrium of Zombies and Other Things Mathematicians See at the Movies
Strength in Numbers: On Mathematics and Musical Rhythm
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