Mathematical explorations / Alan F. Beardon, University of Cambridge.

Author
Beardon, Alan F. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description
x, 117 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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    Mathematical Explorations follows on from the author's previous book, Creative Mathematics in the same series, and gives the reader experience in working on mathematical problems that require a little more maturity. In this text readers will see how mathematical ideas can be applied in a wide range of situations, and also gain an understanding of how mathematical research is conducted. Although readers do not require a deep mathematical background to tackle these problems, their mathematical understanding will be enriched by attempting to solve them.--Publisher's description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Paying for parking
    • Lengths and angles
    • Magic squares
    • Intersecting chords
    • Crossing squares
    • Repeated vector products
    • A rolling disc
    • Sums of powers of digits
    • The metric dimension
    • Primes and irreducible elements
    • The symmetries of a quadrilateral
    • Removing a vertex
    • Squares withiin squares
    • Catalan numbers.
    ISBN
    • 9781316610565 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 131661056X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016044608
    OCLC
    945718483
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