Mircea Pitici

Best Writing on Mathematics series editor (2010-21)

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[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

New videos on my recently started YouTube channel:

https://t.co/kVOEO4h9rQ

#mathematics #writing

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

More shorts on my recently started YouTube channel:

https://t.co/6ihXkyqTb9

#mathematics #writing

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Starting a YouTube channel on The Best Writing on Mathematics:

https://t.co/kVOEO4hHho

[Zlatti71 @Zlatti_71]

❗️The Russian army has taken control of more Ukrainian territory since early April than Kiev managed to conquer during its large-scale counteroffensive last year, The Washington Post sadly reports. - FRWL

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

This matter is all about mathematics: mathematics instruction, mathematics imagination, and mathematical experimentation/entrepreneurship. Sadly but implacably, US is falling behind. @nfergus

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

The Fed and the Treasury are also treating the blockchain-based financial innovations that offer the best alternative to China’s e-yuan like gatecrashers at their own exclusive party. My latest for @bopinion https://t.co/ejADy2vIzl

[Colegio de Matemáticas Bourbaki @ColegioBourbaki]

Estamos muy agradecidos con nuestros estudiantes, los asistentes a nuestros talleres y en general la gente que nos sigue.

Como regalo de fin de año nos gustaría regalar una copia del libro "The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020" de @MPitici ¡Feliz 2021!

https://t.co/2J6b7mZQTn

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

@theoremoftheday Thanks @theoremoftheday! Next one is on the way.

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Nice point in school math from @DanielPearcy. Here is another: the line equation can also be written as

x + y/(-4)=1

which is the form given by the two intersections with the axes.

This generalizes to multiple dimensions, unlike the slope-intersect.

https://t.co/LycYulPB5k

[Dan Pearcy @DanielPearcy]

Last year I thought about why we tend to place exclusive emphasis on y-intercept form of a straight line, given that with higher degree polynomials we place high emphasis on factored form (or x-intercept form). I now like to address both forms - does anyone else do this?

[Dan Pearcy @DanielPearcy]

Last year I thought about why we tend to place exclusive emphasis on y-intercept form of a straight line, given that with higher degree polynomials we place high emphasis on factored form (or x-intercept form). I now like to address both forms - does anyone else do this?

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Jim Rogers says stimulus is "absolute madness":

https://t.co/4Y7KxlAswt

George Soros says US needs a lot more of it:

https://t.co/neTtpicdHn

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

By then the old normal will be abnormal and returning to normal will mean not changing the new abnormal. https://t.co/BgCjkFAPMq

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

When I came to this country I went to @NYUStern to get MBA. A few times I made the mistake to say what I was thinking - until one of their oh-so-brilliant asked me: "If you are so smart, why did you come here?"

Next morning I was out of there. Never regretted!

@nntaleb

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

As a teenager, I had dreams of becoming either a math professor or a science writer. But when I asked for a summer job with @NYTScience, I was told "even our copyboys have journalism degrees." #a_road_not_taken

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Neither list is comprehensive. I mention only materials I have seen, not all that's out there, of course. I rely on the libraries I have access to.

[Gurumurthi V Ramanan @SuraSys1]

@MPitici I was thinking more in the lines of the reviews and popular math books you have collected in one page. Thought you have some bookmarks of the stuff you find across journals, publications & blogs. Had a very good time with your Popular Math collection. Thats the reason I asked.

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

I am not sure I understand your question. Are you asking whether you can suggest pieces? Yes, of course. Although the overwhelming material in the volumes I find myself in publications, occasionally articles sent to me by others make it into the collection. I look at everything.

[Gurumurthi V Ramanan @SuraSys1]

@MPitici I was asking outside of the ones you mentioned in the books.

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Yes @SuraSys1. Every volume includes a long list (up to 20 pages) of "also runs" - pieces I considered but did not include for various reasons (length, copyright issues, etc.) The series is a research tool for readers who want to find more readings on math, their own.

[Gurumurthi V Ramanan @SuraSys1]

@MPitici Do you keep any list of "nominees" for your yearly Best Writings in Mathematics series? Articles in the long list (say) but could not make it ?

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

No remarkable new math during Roman times:

https://t.co/WgrF981vjQ

Yes, but major theoretical integration with encyclopedic knowledge (in Isidor of Seville's 'Etymologies') -- foundation for the applied math to follow centuries later:

https://t.co/aO1tUj4crF

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

@stevenstrogatz : no remarkable new math during Roman times https://t.co/WgrF981vjQ

Yes, but major theoretical integration with encyclopedic knowledge (in Isidor of Seville's 'Etymologies') -- foundation for the applied math to follow centuries later:

https://t.co/aO1tUj4crF

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Forever grateful to David Henderson.

[Dr Daina Taimina @DainaTaimina]

Professor Emeritus David Henderson dies in accident | Cornell Chronicle https://t.co/h7cbom1PYh

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Shopping at the local grocery store and learning from each other (online) how to cook, commoners can eat better and healthier than most kings, emperors, czars, and pharaohs who ever lived.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

We are the luckiest generation that has ever lived. On average, we are longer living, richer, healthier, more educated, safer and, even, happier, than any other people who have ever lived. https://t.co/29Gk6ABfDk

[Mircea Pitici @MPitici]

Last semester one student wrote on exam "F ln (x) =" and proceeded to apply the divergence theorem. That's how he read my handwritten word "Flux", despite my repeated verbal explanations! Range of student misunderstandings is unlimited, refreshing. But how could he memorize that?

[math prof @mathematicsprof]

In hs after reading Hamlet the teacher asked for our favorite passage from the play. Being a wise-a** kid I wrote "Too Bee Oar Knot Two Bee." No credit but teacher wrote "haha" on the test. Every have a student write snarky comment on a text that you gave them a "haha" rating?