The New Mathematical Coloring Book : Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators

Alexander Soifer

ISBN 10: 1071635964 / ISBN 13: 9781071635964

Edité par Springer US, Springer US Mär 2024, 2024

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The New Mathematical Coloring Book(TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition. A large part of the new edition 'Ask what your computer can do for you,' presents the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey and works by Marijn Heule, Jaan Parts, Geoffrey Exoo, and Dan Ismailescu. TNMCB introduces new open problems and conjectures that will pave the way to the future keeping the book in the center of the field. TNMCB presents mathematics of coloring as an evolution of ideas, with biographies of their creators and historical setting of the world around them, and the world around us.A new thing in the world at the time,TMCB Iis now joined by a colossal sibling containing more than twice as much of what only Alexander Soifer can deliver: an interweaving of mathematics with history and biography, well-seasoned with controversy and opinion.-Peter D. Johnson, Jr.Auburn UniversityLike TMCB I, TMCB II is a unique combination of Mathematics, History, and Biography written by a skilled journalist who has been intimately involved with the story for the last half-century. .The nature of the subject makes much of the material accessible to students, but also of interest to working Mathematicians. . In addition to learning some wonderful Mathematics, students will learn to appreciate the influences of Paul Erdös, Ron Graham, and others.-Geoffrey ExooIndiana State UniversityThe beautiful and uniqueMathematical coloring bookof Alexander Soifer is another case of 'good mathematics', containing a lot of similar examples (it is not by chance that Szemerédi's Theorem story is included as well) and presenting mathematics as both a science and an art.-Peter MihókMathematical Reviews, MathSciNetA postman came to the door with a copy of the masterpiece of the century. I thank you and the mathematics community should thank you for years to come. You have set a standard for writing about mathematics and mathematicians that will be hard to match.-Harold W. KuhnPrinceton UniversityI have never encountered a book of this kind. The best description of it I can give is that it is a mystery novel. I found it hard to stop reading before I finished (in two days) the whole text. Soifer engages the reader's attention not only mathematically, but emotionally and esthetically. May you enjoy the book as much as I did!-Branko GrünbaumUniversity of WashingtonI am in absolute awe of your 2008 book.-Aubrey D.N.J. de GreyLEV Foundation.

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• Titre: The New Mathematical Coloring Book : Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators
• Éditeur: Springer US, Springer US Mär 2024
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1071635964
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781071635964
• Reliure: Buch
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 260 L x 183 H x 50 P (en millimètres) 260 millimètres de largeur par 183 millimètres de hauteur par 50 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 2041 grammes

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Synopsis

This book is dedicated to problems involving colored objects, and to results about the existence of certain exciting and unexpected properties that occur regardless of how these objects are colored. In mathematics, these results comprise the beautiful area known as Ramsey Theory. Ramsey Theory includes parts of many fields of mathematics, including combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. This book addresses famous and exciting problems of Ramsey Theory, along with the history surrounding the discovery of Ramsey Theory. In addition, the author studies the life of Issai Schur, Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet and B.L. van der Waerden. Due to the author's correspondence with van der Waerden, Erdös, and Schur, this book contains material that has never before been published. Historians of mathematics will herein find much new information, along with old errors corrected and published here for the first time in book form.

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Alexander Soifer is a Russian born and educated American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, an author of some 400 articles on mathematics, history of mathematics, mathematics education, film reviews, etc. and has published 9 books with Springer. From 2012-2018, he served as President of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions, which in 2006 awarded him The Paul Erdős Award. In 1991 Soifer founded a research quarterly titled Geombinatorics and with a premier editorial board has published 130 issues over 33 years. Soifer founded The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad, and served on both USSR and USA Mathematical Olympiads committees. Soifer's Erdős number is 1.