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Mathematical Treks: From Surreal Numbers to Magic Circles
 
Mathematical Treks
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5851-5
Product Code:  SPEC/35.E
List Price: $30.00
MAA Member Price: $22.50
AMS Member Price: $22.50
Mathematical Treks
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Mathematical Treks: From Surreal Numbers to Magic Circles
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5851-5
Product Code:  SPEC/35.E
List Price: $30.00
MAA Member Price: $22.50
AMS Member Price: $22.50
  • Book Details
     
     
    Spectrum
    Volume: 352002; 170 pp
    MSC: Primary 00

    Science News publishes a weekly column devoted to 'cool stuff' from the world of mathematics. There have been over 250 articles under the title 'Ivars Peterson's Math Treks.' New developments and their applications, old puzzles revisited, famous problems, and historic events have all featured. This column has been extremely popular for its brief, informal forays into some of the more unusual aspects of mathematics. Ivars Peterson has enhanced and updated a selection of articles for this book, and further bibliographic details and web links are available online. The contents span a wide range of topics, and there will be something here for anyone with an interest in mathematics.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • 1. Calculation and the Chess Master
    • 2. The Cow in the Classroom
    • 3. A Passion for Pi
    • 4. Computing in a Surreal Realm
    • 5. Pythagoras Plays Ball
    • 6. Recycling Topology
    • 7. Soap Films and Grid Walks
    • 8. Mating Games and Lizards
    • 9. Random Bits
    • 10. Spreading Rumors
    • 11. Toward a Fairer Expansion Draft
    • 12. Cracking the Ball-Control Myth
    • 13. Math and a Music Education
    • 14. Sprouts
    • 15. Groups, Graphs, and Paul Erdős
    • 16. DNA Adds Up
    • 17. Computing with the EDSAC
    • 18. Waring Experiments
    • 19. Old and New Arithmetic
    • 20. Matchsticks in the Summer
    • 21. Tricky Crossings
    • 22. Beyond the Ellipse
    • 23. Trouble with Wild-Card Poker
    • 24. Prime Theorems
    • 25. Champion Numbers
    • 26. A Perfect Collaboration
    • 27. Fragments of the Past
    • 28. More than Magic Squares
    • 29. Rolling with Reuleaux
    • 30. Next in Line
    • 31. Pennies in a Tray
    • 32. Fair Play and Dreidel
    • 33. Euclid’s Fourteenth Book
  • Reviews
     
     
    • A marvelous mathematical buffet, ranging across a wide spectrum of topics in number theory, geometry, combinatorics, games, probability, and more.

      Ronald L. Graham, University of California, San Diego
    • ... a worthy successor to Martin Gardner. Praise could not go much higher.. his writing is clear and easy to read...

      Underwood Dudley, Author of "Mathematical Cranks" and "Numerology"
  • Requests
     
     
    Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
    Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
Volume: 352002; 170 pp
MSC: Primary 00

Science News publishes a weekly column devoted to 'cool stuff' from the world of mathematics. There have been over 250 articles under the title 'Ivars Peterson's Math Treks.' New developments and their applications, old puzzles revisited, famous problems, and historic events have all featured. This column has been extremely popular for its brief, informal forays into some of the more unusual aspects of mathematics. Ivars Peterson has enhanced and updated a selection of articles for this book, and further bibliographic details and web links are available online. The contents span a wide range of topics, and there will be something here for anyone with an interest in mathematics.

  • Chapters
  • 1. Calculation and the Chess Master
  • 2. The Cow in the Classroom
  • 3. A Passion for Pi
  • 4. Computing in a Surreal Realm
  • 5. Pythagoras Plays Ball
  • 6. Recycling Topology
  • 7. Soap Films and Grid Walks
  • 8. Mating Games and Lizards
  • 9. Random Bits
  • 10. Spreading Rumors
  • 11. Toward a Fairer Expansion Draft
  • 12. Cracking the Ball-Control Myth
  • 13. Math and a Music Education
  • 14. Sprouts
  • 15. Groups, Graphs, and Paul Erdős
  • 16. DNA Adds Up
  • 17. Computing with the EDSAC
  • 18. Waring Experiments
  • 19. Old and New Arithmetic
  • 20. Matchsticks in the Summer
  • 21. Tricky Crossings
  • 22. Beyond the Ellipse
  • 23. Trouble with Wild-Card Poker
  • 24. Prime Theorems
  • 25. Champion Numbers
  • 26. A Perfect Collaboration
  • 27. Fragments of the Past
  • 28. More than Magic Squares
  • 29. Rolling with Reuleaux
  • 30. Next in Line
  • 31. Pennies in a Tray
  • 32. Fair Play and Dreidel
  • 33. Euclid’s Fourteenth Book
  • A marvelous mathematical buffet, ranging across a wide spectrum of topics in number theory, geometry, combinatorics, games, probability, and more.

    Ronald L. Graham, University of California, San Diego
  • ... a worthy successor to Martin Gardner. Praise could not go much higher.. his writing is clear and easy to read...

    Underwood Dudley, Author of "Mathematical Cranks" and "Numerology"
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