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Nifty math notions = an exploration of puzzles, problems, ideas, and discoveries /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Nifty math notions / Charles L. Silver.
Reminder of title:	an exploration of puzzles, problems, ideas, and discoveries /
Author:	Silver, Charles L.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) :illustrations. :
Subject:	Mathematics - Congresses. -
Online resource:	https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/3.100026
ISBN:	9781510674851

Nifty math notions = an exploration of puzzles, problems, ideas, and discoveries /
Silver, Charles L.,

Nifty math notions an exploration of puzzles, problems, ideas, and discoveries /[electronic resource] :Charles L. Silver. - 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) :illustrations. - SPIE Press monograph ;PM375. - SPIE Press monograph ;PM103..

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Paul Erdos -- 2 Young Gauss -- 3 Induction and Recursion -- 4 Euclid -- 5 Axioms -- 6 Angles of a Triangle -- 7 Aristotle -- 8 Riddles -- 9 Archimedes -- 10 Eratosthenes -- 11 More Ancient Wisdom: Theodorus, Plato, Hypatia, and Thales -- 12 Probabilities -- 13 Paradoxes -- 14 Fallacies -- 15 The Problem with Rabbits -- 16 Miscellaneous Problems -- 17 Unsolved Problems -- 18 Sentential Logic -- 19 Functions -- 20 Set Theory -- 21 Group Theory and Other Elementary Theories -- 22 Computer Science -- 23 Undecidability: G�odel and Chaitin -- Solutions to Exercises -- References.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"This is a charming garden-path survey of many big names and big ideas in the history of mathematics, replete with funny anecdotes, delightful puzzles, and challenging problems that will help you understand logic, math, and the world around you as never before. It will be read by puzzlers, thinkers, and, hopefully, students. Like works by Martin Gardner or Raymond Smullyan, Nifty Math Notions offers plenty of amusing brainteasers. But it's also a selective history, meant to offer young and older readers a treasury of great ideas and to expose them to many new and old ways to solve common (and not so common) problems."--

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9781510674851

Standard No.: 10.1117/3.100026doiSubjects--Personal Names:

877298
Kidger, Michael J.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

528582
Mathematics
--Congresses.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QA95 / .S494 2024eb

Dewey Class. No.: 793.74

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