Mathematical Circles Adieu
Author : Howard Whitley Eves
Publisher : Prindle Weber & Schmidt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
Author : Howard Whitley Eves
Publisher : Prindle Weber & Schmidt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
Author : Howard W. Eves
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470457407
Author : Steven G. Krantz
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470451727
A companion to Mathematical Apocrypha (published in 2002) this second volume of anecdotes, stories, quips, and ruminations about mathematics and mathematicians is sure to please. It differs from other books of its type in that many of the stories are from the twentieth century and many about currently living mathematicians. A number of the best stories come from the author's first-hand experience. The writing is lively, engaging, and informative. There are stories the reader may wish to share with students and colleagues, friends, and relatives. The purpose of the book is to explore and to celebrate the many facets of mathematical life. The stories reveal mathematicians as intense, human, and sympathetic. They should resonate with readers everywhere. This book will appeal to students from high school through graduate school, to faculty and mathematical scientists of all stripes, and also to physicists, engineer, and anyone interested in mathematics.
Author : John Parker
Publisher : MAA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780883855508
"Publications of Robert Lee Moore"--P. 359-363.
Author : Seth Braver
Publisher : MAA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0883859793
A historical introduction to non-Euclidean geometry.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : MAA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780883855515
Previously published separately, the two books aha! Gotcha and aha! Insight are here combined as a single volume. The aha! books, as they are referred to by fans of Martin Gardner, contain 144 wonderful puzzles from the reigning king of recreational mathematics. In this combined volume, you will find puzzles ranging over geometry, logic, probability, statistics, number, time, combinatorics, and word play. Gardner calls these puzzles aha! problems, that 'seem difficult, and indeed are difficult if you go about trying to solve them in traditional ways. But if you can free your mind from standard problem solving techniques, you may be receptive to an aha! reaction that leads immediately to a solution. Don't be discouraged if, at first, you have difficulty with these problems. After a while you will begin to catch the spirit of offbeat, nonlinear thinking, and you may be surprised to find your aha! ability improving.'
Author : Miodrag Petkovi_
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821848143
This entertaining book presents a collection of 180 famous mathematical puzzles and intriguing elementary problems that great mathematicians have posed, discussed, and/or solved. The selected problems do not require advanced mathematics, making this book accessible to a variety of readers. Mathematical recreations offer a rich playground for both amateur and professional mathematicians. Believing that creative stimuli and aesthetic considerations are closely related, great mathematicians from ancient times to the present have always taken an interest in puzzles and diversions. The goal of this book is to show that famous mathematicians have all communicated brilliant ideas, methodological approaches, and absolute genius in mathematical thoughts by using recreational mathematics as a framework. Concise biographies of many mathematicians mentioned in the text are also included. The majority of the mathematical problems presented in this book originated in number theory, graph theory, optimization, and probability. Others are based on combinatorial and chess problems, while still others are geometrical and arithmetical puzzles. This book is intended to be both entertaining as well as an introduction to various intriguing mathematical topics and ideas. Certainly, many stories and famous puzzles can be very useful to prepare classroom lectures, to inspire and amuse students, and to instill affection for mathematics.
Author : David Perkins
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470447991
Certain constants occupy precise balancing points in the cosmos of number, like habitable planets sprinkled throughout our galaxy at just the right distances from their suns. This book introduces and connects four of these constants (φ,Π,e, and i), each of which has recently been the individual subject of historical and mathematical expositions. But here we discuss their properties, as a group, at a level appropriate for an audience armed only with the tools of elementary calculus. This material offers an excellent excuse to display the power of calculus to reveal elegant truths that are not often seen in college classes. These truths are described here via the work of such luminaries as Nilakantha, Liu Hui, Hemachandra, Khayyam, Newton, Wallis, and Euler.
Author : Steven G. Krantz
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470457385
Author : Howard Eves
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :