Mathematical journeys
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J.:
Wiley-Interscience,
c2004
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| Online Access: | http://login.proxy.eap.gr/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471650986 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Let's Get Cooking: A Variety of Mathematical Ingredients
- 2. The Green Chicken Contest
- 3. The Josephus Problem: Please Choose Me Last
- 4. Nim and Wythoff's Game: Or How to Get Others to Pay Your Bar Bill
- 5. Mersenne Primes, Perfect Numbers, and Amicable Pairs
- 6. The Harmonic Series .. and Less
- 7. Fermat Primes, the Chinese Remainder Theorem, and Lattice Points
- 8. Tic-Tac-Toe, Magic Squares, and Latin Squares
- 9. Mathematical Variations on Rolling Dice
- 10. Pizza Slicing, Map Coloring, Pointillism, and Jack-in-the-Box
- 11. Episodes in the Calculation of Pi
- 12. A Sextet of Scintillating Problems
- 13. Primality Testing Below a Quadrillion
- 14. Erdos Number Zero
- 15. Choosing Stamps to Mail a Letter, Let Me Count the Ways
- 16. Pascal Potpourri