Are you a mathematics major or thinking about becoming one? This friendly guidebook is for you, no matter where you are in your studies. For those just starting out, there are: interactive exercises to help you chart your personalized course, brief...Loe edasi...
Explore the captivating realm of topology, a discipline that examines the enduring characteristics of shapes through smooth transformations. With playful illustrations and vivid examples, this introduction reimagines classic topics from topology and...Loe edasi...
Max Dehn (1878-1952) is known to mathematicians today for his seminal contributions to geometry and topology-Dehn surgery, Dehn twists, the Dehn invariant, etc. He is also remembered as the first mathematician to solve one of Hilberts famous proble...Loe edasi...
Welcome to The Mathematical Playground, a book celebrating more than thirty years of the problems column in the MAA undergraduate magazine, Math Horizons. Anecdotes, interviews, and historical sketches accompany the puzzles, conveying the vibrancy o...Loe edasi...
Are you a mathematics major or thinking about becoming one? This friendly guidebook is for you, no matter where you are in your studies. For those just starting out, there are: interactive exercises to help you chart your personalized course, brief...Loe edasi...
A charming collection of puzzles created by Yoshiyuki Kotani, one of the founding members of the Academy of Recreational Mathematics, Japan. Kotani has selected some of his favorite puzzles from over 40 years of puzzle setting, most of which have ne...Loe edasi...
Aspiring and Inspiring is a collection of essays from successful women and gender minority mathematicians on what it takes to build a career in mathematics. The individual essays are intended to advise, encourage, and inspire mathematicians throug...Loe edasi...
The second part of a Russian book on teaching mathematics through problems appears in English translation, focuses on geometry. It is a resource for Mathematical Circles, an eastern European concept that is similar to Western math clubs, but are...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jun-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789811257353)
Provides a general introduction to applied analysis. Discusses developments in nonlinear science using fundamental ideas of applied mathematics, and describes tools in linear PDE theory-- Updating his textbook on applied analysis after more...Loe edasi...
From an international conference during the fall of 2019 in Providence, Rhode Island, about 80 presentations-one page of illustration and a facing page of text-demonstrate ways of illustrating mathematical concepts. They are arranged by medium:...Loe edasi...
Bicycle or Unicycle? is a collection of 105 mathematical puzzles whose defining characteristic is the surprise encountered in their solutions. Solvers will be surprised, even occasionally shocked, at those solutions. The problems unfold into levels o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470456351)
This collection of problems is designed for high school and undergraduate students who participate in math competitions such as the International Math Olympiads and the Putnam Competition. The book is presented as a humorous conversation between...Loe edasi...
A richly illustrated guide that takes the reader on a tour through ingenious uses of geometry to create illusory impressions of space and grandeur in Italian Renaissance art and architecture in the Eternal City. The book explores some of the most hi...Loe edasi...
Consists of papers originally presented at the Gathering 4 Gardner meetings. Recreational mathematics is strongly prominent with contributions from Neil Sloane, Richard Guy, Solomon Golomb, Barry Cipra, Erik Demaine, and many others....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470449322)
The book originated as notes for a one-semester transition-to-proofs course in algebra, roughly equivalent to an introductory discrete mathematics course but with more group theory, says Hwang. It is for undergraduate mathematics majors with a so...Loe edasi...
Originally published as Der mathematische Zauberstab in 2015, this book describes card and number tricks based on math and how they work. After explaining basic terminology, it details magic tricks based on the counting numbers; card tricks relat...Loe edasi...
Garcia (Pomona College) and Miller (Williams College) have assembled 100 problems recognizing major events in mathematics over the last 100 years with the first problem giving a nod to the birth of Paul Erdos in 1913 and the last problem acknowle...Loe edasi...
Writing for people already running a math circle or thinking of starting one, Givental, Nemirovskaya, and Zakharevich present material that parents can use to motivate their math-loving children, elementary school teachers can use with their stud...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470429317)
Based on presentations at the American Mathematical Society Special Session in Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Fiber Arts, held in January 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland, the eight chapters in this book bring together mathematicians to expl...Loe edasi...
In a book he wishes he had while he was in high school and dreaming of becoming a mathematician, Currie presents mathematical gems that readers can solve with high school algebra or geometry, interspersed with stories of mathematicians. He suspec...Loe edasi...
Burago presents a complete curriculum for the second year in a middle-school mathematics study circle, organizing it as a collection of lessons that include the material to be used in class, the set of problems to work on, and other features to m...Loe edasi...
