Mathematical Puzzles - Brossura

Winkler, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0367206927 ISBN 13: 9780367206925

Casa editrice: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2020

Riassunto

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem.

Features

• A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles
• Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof
• Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Peter Winkler is the William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College, and for 2019 - 2020, the Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics. He is the author of 160 research papers, a dozen patents, two previous puzzle books, a book on cryptographic techniques in the game of bridge, and a portfolio of compositions for ragtime piano.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367206927
• ISBN 13: 9780367206925
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 518
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile