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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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    A Hardback by Richard P. Stanley

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      Publisher: MP-AMM American Mathematical
      Publication Date: 8/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781470456351, 978-1470456351
      ISBN10: 1470456354
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      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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