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Ingenuity In Mathematics /
Sit with this book for half to three-quarters of an hour and you will have mastered an elegant and pleasing bit of mathematics. Nineteen independent essays on topics including number theory, geometry, combinatorics, logic, and probability. The nineteen essays contained in this volume are independent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Anneli Lax new mathematical library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Ingenuity In Mathematics
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Essay 1. Probability and π
- Essay 2. Odd and Even Numbers
- Essay 3. Sylvester�s Problem of Collinear Triads
- Essay 4. The Algebra of Statements
- Essay 5. The Farey Series
- Essay 6. A Property of an
- Essay 7. Squaring the Square
- Essay 8. Writing a Number as a Sum of Two Squares
- Essay 9. The Isoperimetric Problem
- Essay 10. Five Curiosities from Arithmetic
- Essay 11. A Problem of Regiomontanus
- Essay 12. Complementary Sequences
- Essay 13. Pythagorean ArithmeticEssay 14. Abundant Numbers
- Essay 15. Mascheroni and Steiner
- Essay 16. A Property of Some Repeating Decimals
- Essay 17. The Theorem of Barbier
- Essay 18. The Series of Reciprocals of Primes
- Essay 19. Van Schooten�s Problem
- Solutions to Exercises
- Bibliography
- Back Cover