Book review: The Best Writing on Mathematics, 2018 by Mircea Pitici

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The Best Writing on Mathematics is an annual collection of essays about mathematics. These are not the sort of pieces you would see in scholarly journals of mathematics. Not only are they not about new mathematical results, but the intended audience is much broader. None of these essays require advanced training in mathematics; for nearly all of them, secondary school math…