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Presents a dialogue between a professor and eight students in a summer problem solving camp and allows for a conversational approach to the problems as well as some mathematical humour and a few non-mathematical digressions. The problems have been selected for their entertainment value, elegance, trickiness, and unexpectedness.

Table of Contents
  • The first day
  • Polynomials Base
  • mathematics
  • A mysterious visitor
  • Set theory
  • Triangles
  • Independence day
  • Independence aftermath
  • Amanda
  • An aesthetical error
  • Miraculous cancellation
  • Probability theory
  • Geometry
  • Hodegepodge
  • Self-referential mathematics
  • All good things must come to an end
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

    Conversational Problem Solving

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        Publisher American Mathematical Society
        Published 8/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN-13 9781470456351
        978-1470456351
        ISBN-10 1470456354
        Also in:
        Combinatorics and graph theory Number theory

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Presents a dialogue between a professor and eight students in a summer problem solving camp and allows for a conversational approach to the problems as well as some mathematical humour and a few non-mathematical digressions. The problems have been selected for their entertainment value, elegance, trickiness, and unexpectedness.

        Table of Contents
        • The first day
        • Polynomials Base
        • mathematics
        • A mysterious visitor
        • Set theory
        • Triangles
        • Independence day
        • Independence aftermath
        • Amanda
        • An aesthetical error
        • Miraculous cancellation
        • Probability theory
        • Geometry
        • Hodegepodge
        • Self-referential mathematics
        • All good things must come to an end
        • Bibliography
        • Index.

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