The best writing on mathematics 2011 / Mircea Pitici, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

What is mathematics for? / Underwood Dudley -- A tisket, a tasket, a Apollonian gasket / Dana Mackenzie -- The quest for God's number / Rik van Grol -- Meta-morphism : from graduate student to networked mathematician / Andrew Schultz -- One, twio, many : individuality and collectivity in mathematics / Melvyn B. Nathanson -- Reflections on the decline of mathematical tables / Martin Campbell-Kelly -- Under-represented then over-represented : Jews in American mathematics -- Did over-reliance on mathematical models for risk assessment create the financial crisis? / David J. Hand -- Fill in the blanks : using math to turn lo-res datasets into hi-res samples / Jordan Ellenberg -- The great principles of computing / Peter J. Denning -- Computer generation of ribbed sculptures / James Hamlin and Carlo H. S�equin -- Lorenz system offers manifold possibilities for art / Barry A. Cipra -- The mathematical side of M.C. Escher / Doris Schattenschneider -- Celebrating mathematics in stone and bronze / Hela Ferguson and Claire Ferguson -- Mathematics education : theroy, practice, and memories over 50 years / John Mason -- Thinking and comprehending in the mathematics classroom / Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Heather Anderson -- Teaching research : encouraging discoveries / Francis Edward Su -- Reflections of an accidental theorist / Alan H. Shoenfeld -- The conjoint origin of proof and theoretical physics / Hans Niels Jahnke -- What makes mathematics mathematics? / Ian Hacking -- What anti-realism in philosophy of mathematics must offer / Feng Ye -- Seeing numbers / Ivan M. Havel -- Autism and mathematical talent / Ioan James -- How much math is too much math? / Chris J. Budd and Rob Eastaway -- Hidden dimensions / Marianne Freiberger -- Playing with matches / Erica Klarreich.