Aha! Solutions
Aha! Solutions
£38.99
GBPEvery mathematician (beginner, amateur, and professional alike) thrills to find simple, elegant solutions to seemingly difficult problems. Such happy resolutions are called 'aha! solutions,' a phrase popularized by mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner. Aha! solutions are surprising, stunning, and scintillating: they reveal the beauty of mathematics. This collection includes one hundred problems in the areas of arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus, probability, number theory, and combinatorics. The problems start out easy and generally get more difficult as you progress through the book. A few solutions require the use of a computer. An important feature of the book is the discussion of related mathematics that follows the solution of each problem. This material is there to entertain and inform you or point you to new questions.
- Includes a toolkit that lets you look up a definition or concept
- Contains 100 problems and their elegant solutions
- Progresses through the book from easy problems to harder ones
Product details
January 2009Hardback
9780883858295
220 pages
262 × 183 × 17 mm
0.54kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Elementary problems
- 2. Intermediate problems
- 3. Advanced problems
- A. Toolkit
- B. List of bonuses
- Bibliography
- Index.
