Alan F Beardon

Mathematical Explorations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides readers with experience of working on difficult unsolved problems. No deep mathematical background is required.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9781316610565
• ISBN-10: 131661056X
• Artikelnr.: 45160873

Autorenporträt

Alan F. Beardon studied at the University of London and Harvard University, and obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 1964. He taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Kent before moving to the University of Cambridge in 1968, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. He is the author of six mathematical texts and numerous research papers.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
How to use this book
1. Paying for parking
2. Lengths and angles
3. Magic squares
4. Intersecting chords
5. Crossing squares
6. Repeated vector products
7. A rolling disc
8. Sums of powers of digits
9. The metric dimension
10. Primes and irreducible elements
11. The symmetries of a quadrilateral
12. Removing a vertex
13. Squares within squares
14. Catalan numbers
References
Index.