The edge of the universe : celebrating 10 years of Math horizons / edited by Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haunsperger, Deanna.

Kennedy, Stephen F.

Series:

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Popular works.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--History.

Mathematics in literature.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 303 pages : illustrations (some color))

Other Title:

Cover title: Edge of the universe : celebrating ten years of Math horizons

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2006.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Summary:

"Math Horizons celebrates the people and ideas that are mathematics. Containing the editors' selection from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of mathematics accessible at the level of an undergraduate or advanced high school student"--Back cover.

Contents:

John Horton Conway

Talking a Good Game / Donald J. Albers

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/01 Long Run Predictions / Mark F. Schilling

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/02 The Art Gallery Problem / Alan Tucker

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/03 Army Beats Harvard in Football and Mathematics / David C. Arney

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/04 Fermat Faces Reality

A Diophantine Drama in One Act / Kenneth M. Hoffman

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/05 Why History? / Underwood Dudley

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/06 Carving Mathematics / Donald J. Albers

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/07 Word Ladders

Lewis Carroll's Doublets / Martin Gardner

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/08 Professor of Magic Mathematics / Donald J. Albers

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/09 Weird Dice / Joseph A. Gallian

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/10 The Chinese Domino Challenge / Don Knuth

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/11 Making Connections

A Profile of Fan Chung / Donald J. Albers

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/12 Math on Money / Joseph A. Gallian

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/13 The Parallel Climbers Puzzle

A Case Study in the Power of Graph Models / Alan Tucker

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/14 A Perfectly Odd Encounter in a Reno Café / Dan Kalman

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/15 In Prime Territory / Ellen Gethner

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/16 1996

A Triple Anniversary / William Dunham

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/17 A Nice Genius / Donald J. Albers

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/18 An ABeCedarian History of Mathematics / Stephen Kennedy

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/19 Some Surprising Theorems About Rectangles in Triangles / Martin Gardner

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/20 Annular Rings of Equal Area / Mamikon Mnatsakanian

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/21 Some New Discoveries About $3\times 3$ Magic Squares / Martin Gardner

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/22 The Eccentricities of Actors / John M. Harris and Michael J. Mossinghoff

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/23 What's Left? / Richard Guy

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/24 Egyptian Rope, Japanese Paper, and High School Math / David Gale

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/25 Art Benjamin

Mathemagician / Donald J. Albers

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/26 The PhD of Comedy / Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/27 Legislating Pi / Underwood Dudley

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/28 The Ultimate Flat Tire / Stan Wagon

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/29 The Roots of the Branches of Mathematics / Rheta Rubenstein and Randy Schwartz

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/30 The Magician of Budapest / Peter Schumer

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/31 Turning Theorems into Plays / Stephen D. Abbott

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/32 Cycloidal Areas without Calculus / Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/33 A Bicentennial for the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra / Barry Cipra

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/34 Was Gauss Smart? / Thomas E. Moore

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/35 Adoption and Reform of the Gregorian Calendar / Edward L. Cohen

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/36 Quadrilaterally Speaking / William Dunham

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/37 Stopwatch Date / Phil Grizzard

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/38 A Very Simple, Very Paradoxical Old Space-Filling Curve / Ira Rosenholtz

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/39 Coal Miner's Daughter / Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/40 Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts / Allen J. Schwenk

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/41 The Traveling Baseball Fan / Rick Cleary, Dan Faga, Alex Liu and Jason Topel

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/42 A Dozen Areal Maneuvers / James Tanton

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/43 Suppose You Want to Vote Strategically / Donald Saari

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/44 TopSpin on the Symmetric Group / Curtis D. Bennett

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/45 Some New Results on Nonattacking Chess Tasks / Martin Gardner

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/46 Dick Termes and his Spheres / Sandra Keith

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/47 The Edge of the Universe

Noneuclidean Wallpaper / Frank Farris

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/48 Alfred Bray Kempe's "Proof" of the Four-Color Theorem / Timothy Sipka

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/49 A Tale Both Shocking and Hyperbolic / Douglas Dunham

https://www.ams.org/spec/048 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/048/50

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9781470458577 (online)

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