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Index
Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
SECTION 1 Big Questions
1.1 The Top Unsolved Questions in Mathematics Remain Mostly Mysterious
1.2 A Random Walk through the English Language
1.3 Hilbert Walked so the Clay Mathematics Institute Could Run
1.4 Numbers Game
1.5 Is Mathematics, like Science, Pluralistic?
1.6 New Proof Solves 80-Year-Old Irrational Number Problem
1.7 The Three-Body Problem
1.8 The Un(solv)able Problem
SECTION 2 Measurements and Analysis
2.1 Confronting Unknowns
2.2 The Significant Problem of P Values
2.3 How Small is Small?
2.4 Computation in Service of Poetry
2.5 Farewell to the Fractional Foot
SECTION 3 Society, Politics and Economics
3.1 Can an Algorithm Help Solve Political Paralysis?
3.2 Smartphone Data Show Voters in Black Neighborhoods Wait Longer
3.3 Geometry versus Gerrymandering
3.4 Ask Gini: How to Measure Inequality
3.5 The American Economy Is Rigged
3.6 Is Inequality Inevitable?
SECTION 4 Your Health by the Numbers
4.1 False Positive Alarm
4.2 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Social Science Modeling
4.3 Geometry Points to Coronavirus Drug Target Candidates
4.4 Few Would Fear COVID Vaccines if Policy Makers Explained Their Risks Better
4.5 When Assessing Novel Risks, Facts Are Not Enough
SECTION 5 Math Drives Technology
5.1 The Mathematics of (Hacking) Passwords
5.2 Why History Should Matter to Code Breakers
5.3 Color-Changing Fibers Unravel a Knotty Mystery
5.4 Algorithm Aids Search for Those Lost at Sea
5.5 Math Can Help Build a Global Digital Community
5.6 The Math of Making Connections
SECTION 6 Math 101: Education and Learning
6.1 Why Math Education in the U.S. Doesn't Add Up
6.2 Teaching the Controversy: Is 5 × 3 Five 3s or Three 5s?
6.3 The Surprising Link between Recreational Math and Undecidability
6.4 The Mathematical Phrase that Melts My Brain
6.5 Learning on the Back of an Envelope
6.6 Fractions: Where It All Goes Wrong
6.7 The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play the Game
SECTION 7 Pop Culture Math
7.1 For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42
7.2 What Is the Funniest Number?
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