The best writing on mathematics: 2016

Introduction / Mircea Pitici

Mathematics and teaching / Hyman Bass

In defense of pure mathematics / Daniel S. Silver

G.H. Hardy: mathematical biologist / Hannah Elizabeth Christenson and Stephan Ramon Garcia

The reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics / Derek Abbott

Stacking wine bottles revisited / Burkard Polster

The way the billiard ball bounces / Joshua Bowman

The intersection game / Burkhard Polster

Tonight! Epic math battles: counting vs. matching / Jennifer J. Quinn

Mathematicians chase moonshine's shadow / Erica Klarreich

The impenetrable proof / Davide Castelvecchi

A proof that some spaces can't be cut / Kevin Hartnett

Einstein's first proof / Steven Strogatz

Why string theory still offers hope we can unify physics / Brian Greene

The pioneering role of the Sierpinski Gasket / Tanya Khovanova, Eric Nie, and Alok Puranik

Fractals as photographs / Marc Frantz

Math at the Met / Joseph Dauben and Marjorie Senechal

Common sense about the common core / Alan H. Schoenfeld

Explaining your math: unnecessary at best, encumbering at worst / Katharine Beals and Barry Garelick

Teaching applied mathematics / David Acheson, Peter R. Turner, Gilbert Strang, and Rachel Levy

Circular reasoning: who first proved that C divided by d is a constant? / David Richeson

A medieval mystery : Nicole Oresme's concept of curvitas / Isabel M. Serrano and Bogdan D. Suceavă

The myth of Leibniz's proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus / Viktor Blåsjö

The spirograph and mathematical models from Nineteenth-Century Germany / Amy Shell-Gellasch

What does "depth" mean in mathematics? / John Stillwell

Finding errors in big data / Marco Puts, Piet Daas, and Ton De Waal

Programs and probability / Brian Hayes

Lottery perception / Jorge Almeida

Why acknowledging uncertainty can make you a better scientist / Andrew Gelman

For want of a nail: why unnecessarily long tests may be impeding the progress of western civilization / Howard Wainer and Richard Feinberg

How to write a general interest mathematics book / Ian Stewart.