Links to a few choice essays on mathematics, teaching math, and the philosophy of math can be found below.
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- David Aldous
- The top ten things that math probability says about the real world (April 2008)
- Non-technical books relating to Probability
- Keith Devlin
- What does “DOING MATH” mean? (April 2005)
- introducing Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament (March 2008)
- It Ain’t No Repeated Addition (June 2008)…
- … and its follow-up, It’s Still Not Repeated Addition (July-August 2008)
- Martin Gardner
- selections from the essay compilation The Night is Large are available on Google Books
- Douglas Hofstadter
- selections from the essay collection Metamagical Themas (1996) are available on Google Books
- Morris Kline
- selections from the book Mathematics for the Nonmathematician (1985) are available on Google Books
- John Allen Paulos
- Who’s Counting: The Monty Hall Problem (December 2006)
- How to Find a Trend When None Exists (August 2001)
- The spice of life (randomness) (February 2005)
- Eugene Wigner
