Mathemagical Buffet - Paperback
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Mathemagical Buffet - Paperback
$32.40
by Liong-Shin Hahn (Author)
Mathemagical Buffet offers a delectable feast to everyone with a basic facility in secondary-school mathematics. Every topic reflects the incomparable excitement, beauty, and joy of mathematics; they present a wealth of ingenious insights and marvelous ideas at the fundamental level.
The chapters are independent and can be read in any order. Everyone who enjoys elementary mathematics will truly delight in the following gems:
l． Pythagorean Triples via Geometry
l．New proofs of Generalizations of the Theorems of Ptolemy and Simson
l． Mind Reading Tricks, Ladder Lotteries, Mazes, Lattice Points, Round Robin Competitions, An Elementary Fixed Point Theorems and More
l．Simple proofs of the lovely Theorems of Pick and of Jung
l．The Constructibility of a Regular 17-gon
l．Open Problems on Egyptian Fractions and on Primes
Moreover, the reader is gently encouraged to participate actively by responding to a line of questions that are thoughtfully sprinkled throughout the developments of the expositions.
Liong-shin Hahn was born in Tainan, Taiwan. He obtained his B.S. from the National Taiwan University, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He authored Complex Numbers and Geometry (Mathematical Association of America, 1994), New Mexico Mathematics Contest Problem Book (University of New Mexico Press, 2005), Honsberger Revisited (National Taiwan University Press, 2012), and co-authored with Bernard Epstein Classical Complex Analysis (Jones and Bartlett, 1996). He was awarded the Citation for Public Service from the American Mathematical Society in 1998.
Number of Pages: 250
Dimensions: 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 2013
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