Here, Viktor Blåsjö gives a brief history of ?lockdown mathematics? Yelda Nasifoglu decodes the politics of a seventeenth-century play in which the characters are geometric shapes and Andrew Lewis-Pye explains the basic algorithmic rules and computational procedures behind cryptocurrencies. These essays?from leading names and fresh new voices?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. This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world?and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pieces collected here. The year's finest mathematical writing from around the world
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