More mathematical morsels / Ross Honsberger.
By: Honsberger, Ross.
Material type: BookSeries: Dolciani mathematical expositions: 10.Publisher: Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, 1991Description: xii, 322 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0883853140.Subject(s): MathematicsDDC classification: 510Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 510 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00010587 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Another collection of problems from best-selling author Ross Honsberger. He presents a selection drawn from probability, number theory, combinatorics, and geometry, and provides ingenious solutions and/or intriguing results. All of the problems presented in the volume are accessible to anyone with an interest in mathematics.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322).
Morsel 1.a suprising property of the integer II -- Morsel 2.an unexpected equality -- Morsel 3.an arithmetic game -- Morsel 4.sangaku -- Morsel 5.Pagan Island -- Morsel 6.persistent numbers -- Morsel 7.an application of Van Der Waerdens theorem -- Morsel 8.Patruno's proof of a theorem of Archimedes -- Morsel 9.An intractable sum -- Morsel 10.A cyclic quadrilateral -- Morsel 11.An unlikely perfect square -- Morsel 12.an unlikely symmetry -- Morsel 13.two famous Diophantine equations -- Morsel 14.Brianchon and Ceva -- Morsel 15.playing on a polynomial -- Morsel 16.overlapping quadrants -- Morsel 17.the circle and the annulus -- Morsel 18.on a balanced incomplete block design -- Morsel19.the red and white balls -- Morsel 20.a prime number generator -- Morsel 21.Neuberg's theorem -- Morsel 22.a geometric calculation -- Morsel 23.on cubic curves -- Morsel 24.An olympiad practice problem -- Morsel25.a quadruple of consecutive integers -- Morsel 26.a box packing problem -- Morsel 27.an awkward integral -- Morsel 28.a matter of perspective -- Morsel 29.sequences of nested radicals -- Morsel 30.equations of factorials -- Morsel 31.an oft-neglected form -- Morsel 32.a theorem of Leon Anne -- Morsel 33.special pairs of positive integers -- Morsel 34.an intriguing sequence -- Morsel35.that number again -- Morsel 36.a rational function -- Morsel 37.an unexpected bijection -- Morsel 38.an unruly sum -- Morsel 39.an interesting inequality -- Morsel 40.a series of reciprocals -- Morsel41.on the least common multiple -- Morsel 42.a family of equations -- Morsel 43.Diophantine reciprocals -- Morsel 44.another series of reciprocals -- Morsel 45.an illegible multiple choice problem -- Morsel 46.on the partition function p(n) -- Morsel 47.proof by interpretation -- Morsel 48.on o(n) ant t(n) -- Morsel 49.a suprising result about tiling a rectangle -- Morsel50.an amazing locus -- Morsel 51.Mooessners theorem -- Morsel 52.counting triangles -- Morsel 53a geometric minimum -- Morsel 54.the probabilistic method -- Morsel55.an application of generating functions -- Morsel 56.on rat-free sets -- Morsel 57.a further note on old Morsel 23.