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A Readers Companion. Offers solutions to the problems in the first part of Hadamards work Lessons in Geometry I Plane Geometry.

BEN WAKEFIELD is the most bullied boy at Scarr Hill High; MR LI is the most accident prone person in Hong Kong. When their paths cross it is the beginning of Ben's journey into another world - a parallel universe of Taoist martial arts, Chinese philosophy and terrifying demons. While Mr Li trains Ben in the Chinese arts of Tai Chi and meditation Ben is unaware of the journey which lies ahead - a journey which he must complete or die. But, before the journey to a strange world has even begun, shadowy figures from the spheres of business and politics, and the demonic creatures they command, are...

This book starts with simple arithmetic inequalities and builds to sophisticated inequality results such as the Cauchy-Schwarz and Chebyshev inequalities. Nothing beyond high school algebra is required of the student. The exposition is lean. Most of the learning occurs as the student engages in the problems posed in each chapter. And the learning is not ``linear''. The central topic of inequalities is linked to others in mathematics. Often these topics relate to much more than algebraic inequalities. There are also ``secret'' pathways through the book. Each chapter has a subtext, a theme...