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The Edge of the Universe: Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons
 
Edited by: Deanna Haunsperger
Stephen Kennedy
The Edge of the Universe
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-88385-555-3
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The Edge of the Universe: Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons
Edited by: Deanna Haunsperger
Stephen Kennedy
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-88385-555-3
Product Code:  SPEC/48
List Price: $65.00
MAA Member Price: $48.75
AMS Member Price: $48.75
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5857-7
Product Code:  SPEC/48.E
List Price: $50.00
MAA Member Price: $37.50
AMS Member Price: $37.50
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-88385-555-3
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5857-7
Product Code:  SPEC/48.B
List Price: $115.00 $90.00
MAA Member Price: $86.25 $67.50
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  • Book Details
     
     
    Spectrum
    Volume: 48; 2006; 303 pp

    Beautifully printed with 24 pages of full color. Ideal for Math Clubs, Math Horizons is a magazine that celebrates the people and ideas which are mathematics. Containing the editor's selections from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of undergraduate-level mathematics. Broad and appealing, the coverage also includes fiction with mathematical themes; literary, theatrical, and cinematic criticism; humor; history; and social history. Mathematics is shown as a human endeavor through biographies and interviews of mathematicians and users of mathematics including artists, writers, and scientists. The puzzles, games, and activities throughout make it a valuable resource for student math clubs. Though especially appealing to students of mathematics from high school to graduate school and their teachers, this collection is an eclectic and wide-ranging look at the culture of mathematics and offers enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in mathematics.
  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Articles
    • Donald J. Albers — John Horton Conway—Talking a Good Game
    • Mark F. Schilling — Long Run Predictions
    • Alan Tucker — The Art Gallery Problem
    • David C. Arney — Army Beats Harvard in Football and Mathematics
    • Kenneth M. Hoffman — Fermat Faces Reality—A Diophantine Drama in One Act
    • Underwood Dudley — Why History?
    • Donald J. Albers — Carving Mathematics
    • Martin Gardner — Word Ladders—Lewis Carroll’s Doublets
    • Donald J. Albers — Professor of Magic Mathematics
    • Joseph A. Gallian — Weird Dice
    • Don Knuth — The Chinese Domino Challenge
    • Donald J. Albers — Making Connections—A Profile of Fan Chung
    • Joseph A. Gallian — Math on Money
    • Alan Tucker — The Parallel Climbers Puzzle—A Case Study in the Power of Graph Models
    • Dan Kalman — A Perfectly Odd Encounter in a Reno Café
    • Ellen Gethner — In Prime Territory
    • William Dunham — 1996—A Triple Anniversary
    • Donald J. Albers — A Nice Genius
    • Stephen Kennedy — An ABeCedarian History of Mathematics
    • Martin Gardner — Some Surprising Theorems About Rectangles in Triangles
    • Mamikon Mnatsakanian — Annular Rings of Equal Area
    • Martin Gardner — Some New Discoveries About $3\times 3$ Magic Squares
    • John M. Harris and Michael J. Mossinghoff — The Eccentricities of Actors
    • Richard Guy — What’s Left?
    • David Gale — Egyptian Rope, Japanese Paper, and High School Math
    • Donald J. Albers — Art Benjamin—Mathemagician
    • Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy — The PhD of Comedy
    • Underwood Dudley — Legislating Pi
    • Stan Wagon — The Ultimate Flat Tire
    • Rheta Rubenstein and Randy Schwartz — The Roots of the Branches of Mathematics
    • Peter Schumer — The Magician of Budapest
    • Stephen D. Abbott — Turning Theorems into Plays
    • Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian — Cycloidal Areas without Calculus
    • Barry Cipra — A Bicentennial for the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
    • Thomas E. Moore — Was Gauss Smart?
    • Edward L. Cohen — Adoption and Reform of the Gregorian Calendar
    • William Dunham — Quadrilaterally Speaking
    • Phil Grizzard — Stopwatch Date
    • Ira Rosenholtz — A Very Simple, Very Paradoxical Old Space-Filling Curve
    • Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy — Coal Miner’s Daughter
    • Allen J. Schwenk — Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts
    • Rick Cleary, Dan Faga, Alex Liu and Jason Topel — The Traveling Baseball Fan
    • James Tanton — A Dozen Areal Maneuvers
    • Donald Saari — Suppose You Want to Vote Strategically
    • Curtis D. Bennett — TopSpin on the Symmetric Group
    • Martin Gardner — Some New Results on Nonattacking Chess Tasks
    • Sandra Keith — Dick Termes and his Spheres
    • Frank Farris — The Edge of the Universe—Noneuclidean Wallpaper
    • Timothy Sipka — Alfred Bray Kempe’s “Proof” of the Four-Color Theorem
    • Douglas Dunham — A Tale Both Shocking and Hyperbolic
    • Stephen Kennedy — Symbols of Power
    • Dinoj Surendran — The Conquest of the Kepler Conjecture
    • Olivia M. Carducci — A Match Made in Mathematics
    • Judy Green — How Many Women Mathematicians Can You Name?
    • Thaddeus N. Selden and Bruce F. Torrence — If Pascal Had a Computer
    • Victor E. Hill, IV — President Garfield and the Pythagorean Theorem
    • Peter Schumer — Life and Death on the Go Board
    • Thomas Hull — In Search of a Practical Map Fold
    • Underwood Dudley — The World’s First Mathematics Textbook
    • Philip D. Straffin, Jr. — The Instability of Democratic Decisions
    • Carl Pomerance — A Baseball Giant, A Math Giant, and the Epsilon in the Middle
    • Paul C. Pasles — Digging for Squares
    • James Tanton — A Dozen Questions about a Triangle
    • Rick Gillman — Geometry and Gerrymandering
    • Joseph A. Gallian — Who is the Greatest Hitter of Them All?
    • Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian — Generalized Cyclogons
    • Colm Mulcahy — Fitch Cheney’s Five Card Trick
    • Robert Schuerman — The Card Game
    • Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour — Truels and the Future
    • Alex Kasman — Unreasonable Effectiveness
    • Katherine Socha and Michael Starbird — How to Ace Literature—A Streetwise Guide for the Math Student
    • Doug Ensley — Fibonacci’s Triangle and Other Abominations
    • Mark Schilling — A Switch in Time Pays Fine?
    • Roger B. Nelsen — Paintings, Plane Tilings and Proofs
    • Michael McDaniel — Knots to You
  • Reviews
     
     

    • This beautiful and extensively illustrated book celebrates the first ten years of the student magazine, Math Horizons...This book would be an excellent addition to libraries and a terrific resource for mathematics clubs. It would be very suitable as a gift or prize for young mathematicians.
      Mary Coupland, The Australian Math Teacher
  • Requests
     
     
    Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
    Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
Spectrum
Volume: 48; 2006; 303 pp

Beautifully printed with 24 pages of full color. Ideal for Math Clubs, Math Horizons is a magazine that celebrates the people and ideas which are mathematics. Containing the editor's selections from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of undergraduate-level mathematics. Broad and appealing, the coverage also includes fiction with mathematical themes; literary, theatrical, and cinematic criticism; humor; history; and social history. Mathematics is shown as a human endeavor through biographies and interviews of mathematicians and users of mathematics including artists, writers, and scientists. The puzzles, games, and activities throughout make it a valuable resource for student math clubs. Though especially appealing to students of mathematics from high school to graduate school and their teachers, this collection is an eclectic and wide-ranging look at the culture of mathematics and offers enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in mathematics.
  • Articles
  • Donald J. Albers — John Horton Conway—Talking a Good Game
  • Mark F. Schilling — Long Run Predictions
  • Alan Tucker — The Art Gallery Problem
  • David C. Arney — Army Beats Harvard in Football and Mathematics
  • Kenneth M. Hoffman — Fermat Faces Reality—A Diophantine Drama in One Act
  • Underwood Dudley — Why History?
  • Donald J. Albers — Carving Mathematics
  • Martin Gardner — Word Ladders—Lewis Carroll’s Doublets
  • Donald J. Albers — Professor of Magic Mathematics
  • Joseph A. Gallian — Weird Dice
  • Don Knuth — The Chinese Domino Challenge
  • Donald J. Albers — Making Connections—A Profile of Fan Chung
  • Joseph A. Gallian — Math on Money
  • Alan Tucker — The Parallel Climbers Puzzle—A Case Study in the Power of Graph Models
  • Dan Kalman — A Perfectly Odd Encounter in a Reno Café
  • Ellen Gethner — In Prime Territory
  • William Dunham — 1996—A Triple Anniversary
  • Donald J. Albers — A Nice Genius
  • Stephen Kennedy — An ABeCedarian History of Mathematics
  • Martin Gardner — Some Surprising Theorems About Rectangles in Triangles
  • Mamikon Mnatsakanian — Annular Rings of Equal Area
  • Martin Gardner — Some New Discoveries About $3\times 3$ Magic Squares
  • John M. Harris and Michael J. Mossinghoff — The Eccentricities of Actors
  • Richard Guy — What’s Left?
  • David Gale — Egyptian Rope, Japanese Paper, and High School Math
  • Donald J. Albers — Art Benjamin—Mathemagician
  • Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy — The PhD of Comedy
  • Underwood Dudley — Legislating Pi
  • Stan Wagon — The Ultimate Flat Tire
  • Rheta Rubenstein and Randy Schwartz — The Roots of the Branches of Mathematics
  • Peter Schumer — The Magician of Budapest
  • Stephen D. Abbott — Turning Theorems into Plays
  • Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian — Cycloidal Areas without Calculus
  • Barry Cipra — A Bicentennial for the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
  • Thomas E. Moore — Was Gauss Smart?
  • Edward L. Cohen — Adoption and Reform of the Gregorian Calendar
  • William Dunham — Quadrilaterally Speaking
  • Phil Grizzard — Stopwatch Date
  • Ira Rosenholtz — A Very Simple, Very Paradoxical Old Space-Filling Curve
  • Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy — Coal Miner’s Daughter
  • Allen J. Schwenk — Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts
  • Rick Cleary, Dan Faga, Alex Liu and Jason Topel — The Traveling Baseball Fan
  • James Tanton — A Dozen Areal Maneuvers
  • Donald Saari — Suppose You Want to Vote Strategically
  • Curtis D. Bennett — TopSpin on the Symmetric Group
  • Martin Gardner — Some New Results on Nonattacking Chess Tasks
  • Sandra Keith — Dick Termes and his Spheres
  • Frank Farris — The Edge of the Universe—Noneuclidean Wallpaper
  • Timothy Sipka — Alfred Bray Kempe’s “Proof” of the Four-Color Theorem
  • Douglas Dunham — A Tale Both Shocking and Hyperbolic
  • Stephen Kennedy — Symbols of Power
  • Dinoj Surendran — The Conquest of the Kepler Conjecture
  • Olivia M. Carducci — A Match Made in Mathematics
  • Judy Green — How Many Women Mathematicians Can You Name?
  • Thaddeus N. Selden and Bruce F. Torrence — If Pascal Had a Computer
  • Victor E. Hill, IV — President Garfield and the Pythagorean Theorem
  • Peter Schumer — Life and Death on the Go Board
  • Thomas Hull — In Search of a Practical Map Fold
  • Underwood Dudley — The World’s First Mathematics Textbook
  • Philip D. Straffin, Jr. — The Instability of Democratic Decisions
  • Carl Pomerance — A Baseball Giant, A Math Giant, and the Epsilon in the Middle
  • Paul C. Pasles — Digging for Squares
  • James Tanton — A Dozen Questions about a Triangle
  • Rick Gillman — Geometry and Gerrymandering
  • Joseph A. Gallian — Who is the Greatest Hitter of Them All?
  • Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian — Generalized Cyclogons
  • Colm Mulcahy — Fitch Cheney’s Five Card Trick
  • Robert Schuerman — The Card Game
  • Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour — Truels and the Future
  • Alex Kasman — Unreasonable Effectiveness
  • Katherine Socha and Michael Starbird — How to Ace Literature—A Streetwise Guide for the Math Student
  • Doug Ensley — Fibonacci’s Triangle and Other Abominations
  • Mark Schilling — A Switch in Time Pays Fine?
  • Roger B. Nelsen — Paintings, Plane Tilings and Proofs
  • Michael McDaniel — Knots to You

  • This beautiful and extensively illustrated book celebrates the first ten years of the student magazine, Math Horizons...This book would be an excellent addition to libraries and a terrific resource for mathematics clubs. It would be very suitable as a gift or prize for young mathematicians.
    Mary Coupland, The Australian Math Teacher
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