Mathematical Explorations

ISBN-13: 9781316610565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 126 str.

Alan Beardon

Opis

Provides readers with experience of working on difficult unsolved problems. No deep mathematical background is required.

Recenzje

'The broad array of mathematics that is covered in this text might provide a thought-provoking summary of topics and give students an opportunity to expand their horizons.' Mark Hunacek, MAA Reviews

Spis treści

Preface; How to use this book; 1. Paying for parking; 2. Lengths and angles; 3. Magic squares; 4. Intersecting chords; 5. Crossing squares; 6. Repeated vector products; 7. A rolling disc; 8. Sums of powers of digits; 9. The metric dimension; 10. Primes and irreducible elements; 11. The symmetries of a quadrilateral; 12. Removing a vertex; 13. Squares within squares; 14. Catalan numbers; References; Index.