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Mathematical Vistas
From a Room with Many Windows, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
ISBN/EAN: 9781441928672
Umbreit-Nr.: 1601364
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 337 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 03.12.2010
Auflage: 1/2002
- Zusatztext
- This book collects nine related mathematical essays which will intrigue and inform. From the reviews: "The authors put their writing where their talents are, and students get to see just how alive mathematics is.there is much to commend the book. It contains plenty of interesting mathematics, often going in unusual directions. I like the diagrams; the authors have chosen mathematics that involves especially pretty ones." --THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
- Kurztext
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extrasRequest lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
- Autorenportrait
- Inhaltsangabe* Paradoxes in Mathematics * Not the Last of Fermat * Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers: Their Connections and Divisibility Properties * Paper-Folding, Polyhedra-Building and Number Theory * Are Four Colors Enough? * From Binomial to Trinomial Coefficients and Beyond * Catalan Numbers * Symmetry * Parties