Which Way Did the Bicycle Go?: And Other Intriguing Mathematical Mysteries - Couverture souple

Konhauser, Joseph D. E.; Velleman, Dan; Wagon, Stan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0883853256 ISBN 13 : 9780883853252

Editeur : The Mathematical Association of America, 1997

Synopsis

This book contains the best problems selected from over 25 years of the Problem of the Week at Macalester College. This collection will give students, teachers, and university professors a chance to experience the pleasure of wrestling with some beautiful problems of elementary mathematics. Readers can compare their sleuthing talents with those of Sherlock Holmes, who made a bad mistake regarding the first problem in the collection: Determine the direction of travel of a bicycle that has left its tracks in a patch of mud. The collection contains a variety of other unusual and interesting problems in geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and number theory. For example, if a pizza is sliced into eight 45-degree wedges meeting at a point other than the center of the pizza, and two people eat alternating wedges, will they get equal amounts of pizza? Or: Is an advertiser's claim that a certain unusual combination lock allows thousands of combinations justified? Complete solutions to the 191 problems are included with problem variations and topics for investigation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Mathematical Association of America
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0883853256
• ISBN 13: 9780883853252
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 253
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• Personne responsable: non disponible