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.
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... 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"
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 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
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Science News publishes a weekly column devoted to 'cool stuff' from the world of mathematics. New developments and their applications, old puzzles revisited, famous problems and historic events have all featured. Ivars Peterson has enhanced and updated a selection of articles for this book.
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interesting facts as well as math games that make you think. if you like math puzzles try some of these
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As a spectator sport, championship chess lacks the unrelenting action of a basketball game and the bruising spectacle of a football superbowl. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
surreal numbers, equal disks, recycling symbol, recreational mathematics, expansion draft, prime number theorem, ball control Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Science News, Deep Blue, Mathematical Association of America, Mathematics Magazine, Scientific American, Math Horizons, American Mathematical Monthly, The Book of Numbers, Wayside School, American Mathematical Society, Euclid's Elements, Oxford University Press, The Lighter Side of Mathematics, Annals of the History of Computing, College Mathematics Journal, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, The Mathematics of Games, Treviso Arithmetic, Classic Puzzles, Islands of Truth, Mississippi River, The Mathematical Tourist, University of Cambridge, Westinghouse Science Talent Search New!
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As a spectator sport, championship chess lacks the unrelenting action of a basketball game and the bruising spectacle of a football superbowl. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
surreal numbers, equal disks, recycling symbol, recreational mathematics, expansion draft, prime number theorem, ball control Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Science News, Deep Blue, Mathematical Association of America, Mathematics Magazine, Scientific American, Math Horizons, American Mathematical Monthly, The Book of Numbers, Wayside School, American Mathematical Society, Euclid's Elements, Oxford University Press, The Lighter Side of Mathematics, Annals of the History of Computing, College Mathematics Journal, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, The Mathematics of Games, Treviso Arithmetic, Classic Puzzles, Islands of Truth, Mississippi River, The Mathematical Tourist, University of Cambridge, Westinghouse Science Talent Search New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Book of Numbers by John H. Conway on 7 pages
- The New Book of Prime Number Records by Paulo Ribenboim on page 98, page 126, and page 130
- The Book of Prime Number Records by Paulo Ribenboim on page 98, page 126, and page 130
- The Mathematics of Games (Dover Books on Mathematics) by John D. Beasley on page 24, page 46, and page 119
- Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (Spectrum) by E. T. Bell in Front Matter, page 98, and page 116
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- The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes by David Darling in Back Matter
- A Biography of the World Most Mysterious Number by Alfred S. Posamentier in Back Matter
- Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical (Spectrum) by Steven Krantz in Front Matter
- 99 Points of Intersection: Examples-Pictures-Proofs by Hans Walser in Front Matter
- The Edge of the Universe: Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons (Spectrum) by Deanna Haunsperger in Front Matter
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