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.

Widoczna okładka, to zdjęcie poglądowe, a rzeczywista szata graficzna może różnić się od prezentowanej. Nie gwarantujemy zgodności okładki z prezentowanym zdjęciem.

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.