A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle

Zvezdelina Stankova

ISBN 10: 0821849123 / ISBN 13: 9780821849125

Editore: American Mathematical Society, US, 2015

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Many mathematicians have been drawn to mathematics through their experience with math circles. The Berkeley Math Circle (BMC) started in 1998 as one of the very first math circles in the U.S. Over the last decade and a half, 100 instructors - university professors, business tycoons, high school teachers, and more - have shared their passion for mathematics by delivering over 800 BMC sessions on the UC Berkeley campus every week during the school year.This second volume of the book series is based on a dozen of these sessions, encompassing a variety of enticing and stimulating mathematical topics, some new and some continuing from Volume I:from dismantling Rubik's Cube and randomly putting it back together to solving it with the power of group theoryfrom raising knot-eating machines and letting Alexander the Great cut the Gordian Knot to breaking through knot theory via the Jones polynomialfrom entering a seemingly hopeless infinite raffle to becoming friendly with multiplicative functions in the land of Dirichlet, Mobius, and Eulerfrom leading an army of jumping fleas in an old problem from the International Mathematical Olympiads to improving our own essay-writing strategiesfrom searching for optimal paths on a hot summer day to questioning whether Archimedes was on his way to discovering trigonometry 2000 years agoDo some of these scenarios sound bizarre, having never before been associated with mathematics? Mathematicians love having fun while doing serious mathematics and that love is what this book intends to share with the reader. Whether at a beginner, an intermediate, or an advanced level, anyone can find a place here to be provoked to think deeply and to be inspired to create.In the interest of fostering a greater awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and everyday life, MSRI and the AMS are publishing books in the Mathematical Circles Library series as a service to young people, their parents and teachers, and the mathematics profession.

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• Titolo: A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle
• Editore: American Mathematical Society, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0821849123
• ISBN 13: 9780821849125
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Editors Stankova and Rike present readers with a the second volume of the ongoing series based on the over 800 Berkeley Math Circle sessions conducted on the University of California Berkeley campus over the last decade and a half. The text covers material presented in twelve of these sessions, focused on a wide variety of math-related subjects, including geometric re-constructions, Rubik’s Cube, knotty mathematics, Multiplicative functions, group theory, monovariants, complex numbers, and inequalities. Svezdelina Stankova is a faculty member of Mills College, California. Tom Rike is a retired high school teacher in Oakland, California. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)