How round is a cube? : and other curious mathematical ponderings

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How round is a cube? : and other curious mathematical ponderings

James Tanton

(MSRI mathematical circles library, 23)

American Mathematical Society, c2019

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"MSRI Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California."--T.p.

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内容説明

This book is a collection of 34 curiosities, each a quirky and delightful gem of mathematics and each a shining example of the joy and surprise that mathematics can bring. Intended for the general math enthusiast, each essay begins with an intriguing puzzle, which either springboards into or unravels to become a wondrous piece of thinking. The essays are self-contained and rely only on tools from high-school mathematics (with only a few pieces that ever-so-briefly brush up against high-school calculus). The gist of each essay is easy to pick up with a cursory glance--the reader should feel free to simply skim through some essays and dive deep into others. This book is an invitation to play with mathematics and to explore its wonders. Much joy awaits! In the interest of fostering a greater awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and everyday life, MSRI and the AMS are publishing books in the Mathematical Circles Library series as a service to young people, their parents and teachers, and the mathematics profession.

目次

Dragons and poison Folding tetrahedra The arbelos Averages via distances Ramsey theory Inner triangles Land or water? Escape Flipping a coin for a year Coinciding digits Inequalities Gauss's shoelace formula Subdividing a square into triangles Equilateral lattice polygons Broken sticks and Viviani's theorem Viviani's converse? Integer right triangles One more question about integer right triangles Intersecting circles Counting triangular and square numbers Balanced sums The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence Some partition numbers Ordering colored fractions How round is a cube? Base and exponent switch Associativity and commutativity puzzlers Very triangular and very very triangular numbers Torus circles Trapezoidal numbers Square permutations Tupper's formula Compositional square roots Polynomial permutations.

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