Putting two and two together : selections from the mathologer file
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Putting two and two together : selections from the mathologer file
American Mathematical Society, c2021
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Description
Putting Two and Two Together is a humorous and quirky collection of unusual, ingenious, and beautiful morsels of mathematics. Authors Burkard Polster (YouTube's Mathologer) and Marty Ross delve into mathematical puzzles and phenomena in engaging stories featuring current events, sports, and history, many flavored with a distinctive bit of Australiana. Each chapter ends with ""puzzles to ponder"" that will spur further reflection. These stories were written for a general audience, and originally appeared in the Maths Masters column in The Age newspaper. The book offers mathematical entertainment for curious readers of all ages, and assumes a minimum of mathematical background.
Table of Contents
Putting two and two together: Cordial math
Uncovering base motives
Sneaky square dance
A very strange set of blocks
Parabolic production line
The magic of the imaginary
There's no $e$ in Euler
What's the best way to lace your shoes?
Ringing the changes
The shape of things to come: Triangle surfer dude
We have it pegged
Shadowlands
Picture perfect
Tractrix and truck tricks
Cycling in circles
Which way did Natalie go?
$\pi=3$
Just the right level of wine
Spotting an unfortunate spot
Summing up the mystery of flight MH370
Choc-full of mathematics
Too hot, too cold, just right
A bloody good sport: Seeds of doubt
Tennis math, anyone?
The ball was in AND out? You cannot be serious!
Giving it your best shot
Bombs, and a bombed Riewoldt
Diophantine footy fan
Walk, don't run!
Tour de math
How round is your soccer ball?
And the winner is...
The house that math built: Visionary Voronoi
Melbourne's catenary chaos
Eureka!
Archimedes' crocodile
Melbourne Grammar mystery map
A rectangle, some spheres and lots of triangles
A chance encounter: So you think you can beat the bookies?
A Penney for your thoughts
The Playmobil mystery
The devil is in the dice
The Freddo Frog path to perfection
Will Rogers, clever Kiwis and medical magic
The hidden karma of snakes and ladders
Space and time, final frontiers: Poet of the universe
Escape to our Moon planet
Tickling Orion with a triangle
The eternal triangles
On primes and Pluto
The math of planet Mars
Letter from Germany: The eternal grind
Calendar kinks
Strange moves of a mathematical feast
Lucky Friday the 13th
On the shoulders of lesser giants: Hermann the hermit
The equals of Robert Recorde
Pythagoras's theorem ain't Pythagoras's
Six of one, Babylonian the other
It's Chris Mass time
Clearing a logjam
Squares, triangles and other labor-saving devices
The doodle, the witch and Maria
Christian Goldbach's magic sum
Solutions to the puzzles
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