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 : 1470463822 ISBN 13 : 9781470463823

Editeur : American Mathematical Society, 1996

Synopsis

This collection will give students (high school or beyond), 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.

Which Way did the Bicycle Go? 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 alternate wedges, will they get equal amounts of pizza? Or: What is the rightmost nonzero digit of the product $1\cdot 2\cdot 3\cdots 1,000,000$? Or: Is a manufacturer's claim that a certain unusual combination lock allows thousands of combinations justified? Complete solutions to the 191 problems are included along with problem variations and topics for investigation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: American Mathematical Society
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1470463822
• ISBN 13: 9781470463823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 235
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible