Binding: Paperback
Description: Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. This Revised Edition has been thoroughly edited to correct errors and provide clarifications and includes some totally different solutions modified puzzles and one entirely new puzzle. Features A collection of the world's best mathematical puzzles Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles examples and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof Puzzles that are entertaining mystifying paradoxical and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.
Title: Mathematical Puzzles Revised Edition
Author(s): Winkler Peter (Dartmouth College Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032708485
Pages: 411 Pages, 180 Line Drawings, Color; 180 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 6/21/2024
Series: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
Category: Applied Mathematics