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Nifty math notions : an exploration of puzzles, problems, ideas, and discoveries / Charles L. Silver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silver, Charles L., author.
- Series:
- SPIE digital library
- SPIE monograph ; PM375.
- SPIE Press monograph ; PM375
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidger, Michael J.
- Mathematical recreations.
- Mathematics--Anecdotes.
- Mathematics.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Bellingham, Washington : SPIE, 2024.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "This is a charming garden-path survey of many big names and big ideas in the history of mathematics, replete with funny anecdotes, delightful puzzles, and challenging problems that will help you understand logic, math, and the world around you as never before. It will be read by puzzlers, thinkers, and, hopefully, students. Like works by Martin Gardner or Raymond Smullyan, Nifty Math Notions offers plenty of amusing brainteasers. But it's also a selective history, meant to offer young and older readers a treasury of great ideas and to expose them to many new and old ways to solve common (and not so common) problems."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Paul Erdos
- 2 Young Gauss
- 3 Induction and Recursion
- 4 Euclid
- 5 Axioms
- 6 Angles of a Triangle
- 7 Aristotle
- 8 Riddles
- 9 Archimedes
- 10 Eratosthenes
- 11 More Ancient Wisdom: Theodorus, Plato, Hypatia, and Thales
- 12 Probabilities
- 13 Paradoxes
- 14 Fallacies
- 15 The Problem with Rabbits
- 16 Miscellaneous Problems
- 17 Unsolved Problems
- 18 Sentential Logic
- 19 Functions
- 20 Set Theory
- 21 Group Theory and Other Elementary Theories
- 22 Computer Science
- 23 Undecidability: Gödel and Chaitin
- Solutions to Exercises
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Title from PDF title page (SPIE eBooks Website, viewed 2024-09-12)
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781510674851
- OCLC:
- 1451542064
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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