Putting Two and Two Together

ISBN-13: 9781470460112 / Miękka / 2022 / 270 str.

Marty Ross

Spis treści

• Putting two and two together: Cordial math
• Uncovering base motives
• Sneaky square dance
• A very strange set of blocks
• Parabolic production line
• The magic of the imaginary
• There's no $e$ in Euler
• What's the best way to lace your shoes?
• Ringing the changes
• The shape of things to come: Triangle surfer dude
• We have it pegged
• Shadowlands
• Picture perfect
• Tractrix and truck tricks
• Cycling in circles
• Which way did Natalie go?
• $\pi=3$
• Just the right level of wine
• Spotting an unfortunate spot
• Summing up the mystery of flight MH370
• Choc-full of mathematics
• Too hot, too cold, just right
• A bloody good sport: Seeds of doubt
• Tennis math, anyone?
• The ball was in AND out? You cannot be serious!
• Giving it your best shot
• Bombs, and a bombed Riewoldt
• Diophantine footy fan
• Walk, don't run!
• Tour de math
• How round is your soccer ball?
• And the winner is...
• The house that math built: Visionary Voronoi
• Melbourne's catenary chaos
• Eureka!
• Archimedes' crocodile
• Melbourne Grammar mystery map
• A rectangle, some spheres and lots of triangles
• A chance encounter: So you think you can beat the bookies?
• A Penney for your thoughts
• The Playmobil mystery
• The devil is in the dice
• The Freddo Frog path to perfection
• Will Rogers, clever Kiwis and medical magic
• The hidden karma of snakes and ladders
• Space and time, final frontiers: Poet of the universe
• Escape to our Moon planet
• Tickling Orion with a triangle
• The eternal triangles
• On primes and Pluto
• The math of planet Mars
• Letter from Germany: The eternal grind
• Calendar kinks
• Strange moves of a mathematical feast
• Lucky Friday the 13th
• On the shoulders of lesser giants: Hermann the hermit
• The equals of Robert Recorde
• Pythagoras's theorem ain't Pythagoras's
• Six of one, Babylonian the other
• It's Chris Mass time
• Clearing a logjam
• Squares, triangles and other labor-saving devices
• The doodle, the witch and Maria
• Christian Goldbach's magic sum
• Solutions to the puzzles