Mathematical Chestnuts from around the World

Paperback Engels 2001 9780883853306
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Ross Honsberger has compiled another collection of miscellaneous gems from elementary mathematics, this time from sources the world over, and ranging from the latest International Olympiads all the way back to Euclid. Each one casts light on a striking result or a brilliant device and any reader with only a modest mathematical background will appreciate the ingenious solutions that are also presented.

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ISBN13:9780883853306
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:319
Uitgever:The Mathematical Association of America

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1. Problems from Ireland; 2. Three solutions to an old chestnut; 3. Problems from Eotvos-Kurschak competitions; 4. Polish math olympiads; 5. East German olympiads; 6. Problems from Pi Mu Epsilon Journal; 7. Austrian-Polish math olympiads; 8. Problems from Quantum; 9. Bulgarian problems for 11-14 year olds; 10. Cusumano's challenge; 11. Five easy problems from Leningrad; 12. An arithmetic puzzle; 13. Gleanings from the Mathematical Gazette; 14. Problems from the Putnam contest; 15. A second look at a problem from Romania; 16. 32 miscellaneous problems; 17. Two problems in combinatorics; 18. An unused problem from the 1988 International Olympiad; 19. Four problems from the 1995 International Olympiad; 20. Two geometry problems; 21. An unlikely perfect square; 22. The nine-point circle and Coolidge's theorem, the De Longchamps point of a triangle, Cantor's theorem, and Napoleon's theorem; 23. A problem from the Philippines; 24. Four solutions by George Evagelopoulos; 25. A Canadian problem; 26. A function of exponential order; Solutions.

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