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A world-renowned mathematician takes a lighthearted look at the philosophy, form, and re-creations of mathematics, discussing the science's charm as well as its utility and historical role. 1958 edition.
Author : Nathan Altshiller-Court
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486449688
A world-renowned mathematician takes a lighthearted look at the philosophy, form, and re-creations of mathematics, discussing the science's charm as well as its utility and historical role. 1958 edition.
Author : Nathan Altshiller-Court
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Mathematical recreations
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin L Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351843060
A collection of solitaires and games.
Author : Edward B. Burger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780393059458
An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.
Author : Nathan Altshiller-Court
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2013-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780486788470
The standard university-level text for decades, this volume offers exercises in construction problems, harmonic division, circle and triangle geometry, and other areas. 1952 edition, revised and enlarged by the author.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1986-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486252116
Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem. Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed. Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all that is needed to solve a puzzle is the ability to think logically and clearly, to be "on the alert for surprising, off-beat angles...that strange hidden factor that everyone else had overlooked." Fully illustrated, this engaging collection will appeal to parents and children, amateur mathematicians, scientists, and students alike, and may, as the author writes, make the reader "want to study the subject in earnest" and explains "some of the inviting paths that wind away from the problems into lusher areas of the mathematical jungle." 65 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470463563
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This is the original 1971 edition and contains columns published in the magazine from 1963-1965.
Author : Arthur B. Powell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 1997-04-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780791433522
Presents the emerging field of ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics education and mathematics in general.
Author : DAVIS
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461585198
LYTTON STRACHEY tells the following story. In intervals of relaxation from his art, the painter Degas used to try his hand at writing sonnets. One day, while so engaged, he found that his in spiration had run dry. In desperation he ran to his friend Mallarme, who was a poet. "My poem won't come out," he said, "and yet I'm full of excellent ideas. " "My dear Degas," Mallarme retorted, "poetry is not written with ideas, it is written with words. " If we seek an application of Mallarme's words to mathematics we find that we shall want to turn his paradox around. We are led to say that mathematics does not consist of formulas, it consists of ideas. What is platitudinous about this statement is that mathe matics, of course, consists of ideas. Who but the most unregenerate formalist, asserting that mathematics is a meaningless game played with symbols, would deny it? What is paradoxical about the state ment is that symbols and formulas dominate the mathematical page, and so one is naturally led to equate mathematics with its formulas.