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Offers an exploration of the aesthetic value of mathematics and the culture of the mathematics community. The book introduces budding mathematicians of all ages to mathematical ways of thinking through a series of chapters that mix episodes from the author's life with explanations of intriguing mathematical concepts.

Table of Contents
  • The riddle
  • Primes
  • Some geometry
  • Mysterious pattern
  • Some things add up. Some don't.
  • A tangential remark
  • Plus or minus
  • Making the optimal choice
  • Impossibilities
  • Magnitudes of infinity
  • The inevitable (Sperner's Lemma--The Brouwer fixed-point theorem)
  • Consider the sequence (Fibonacci and Golden Ratio)
  • What are the chances?
  • The Euler line
  • The dissertation
  • The next prime number is? (Gandhi's formula)
  • Bulgarian solitaire
  • Which is bigger? $(a^b$ versus $b^a)$
  • Fascinating
  • From the sublime to the ridiculous
  • A few more words
  • Photos and pictures
  • Notation, etc.
  • Mysterious
  • Impossibilities
  • Magnitudes
  • Fascinating.

    Mathematics Rhyme and Reason

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        Publisher: MP-AMM American Mathematical
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9781470447960, 978-1470447960
        ISBN10: 1470447967

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Offers an exploration of the aesthetic value of mathematics and the culture of the mathematics community. The book introduces budding mathematicians of all ages to mathematical ways of thinking through a series of chapters that mix episodes from the author's life with explanations of intriguing mathematical concepts.

        Table of Contents
        • The riddle
        • Primes
        • Some geometry
        • Mysterious pattern
        • Some things add up. Some don't.
        • A tangential remark
        • Plus or minus
        • Making the optimal choice
        • Impossibilities
        • Magnitudes of infinity
        • The inevitable (Sperner's Lemma--The Brouwer fixed-point theorem)
        • Consider the sequence (Fibonacci and Golden Ratio)
        • What are the chances?
        • The Euler line
        • The dissertation
        • The next prime number is? (Gandhi's formula)
        • Bulgarian solitaire
        • Which is bigger? $(a^b$ versus $b^a)$
        • Fascinating
        • From the sublime to the ridiculous
        • A few more words
        • Photos and pictures
        • Notation, etc.
        • Mysterious
        • Impossibilities
        • Magnitudes
        • Fascinating.

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