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Expeditions in mathematics
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Collection of lectures, aimed at high school students and presented by prominent mathematicians as part of the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures program.
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- Creator
- edited by Tatiana Shubin, David Hayes, and Gerald Alexanderson
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- English
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, [2011]
- ©2011
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- xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781470458638, 9780883855713, 0883855712
- OCLC
- ocn696296745
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- General. Yearning for the impossible / John Stillwell ; Simple mathematical paradoxes / John Mitchem ; Mathemagical miracles / "Card Colm" Mulcahy ; The mathematics of sudoku / Tom Davis ; Infinity: cardinal numbers / Bjorn Poonen -- Number theory. Some very interesting sequences / John H. Conway and Tim Hsu ; Are there infinitely many twin primes? / D.A. Goldston ; The Riemann hypothesis / J.B. Conrey -- Geometry & topology. Is it knotted? / Joel Hass and Abigail Thompson ; A topological approach to molecular chirality / Erica Flapan ; A noneuclidean universe / Frank A. Farris ; Soap bubble clusters / Frank Morgan ; Maximum volume space quadrilaterals / Thomas Banchoff, with Nicholas Haber and Aaron Mazel-Gee -- Combinatorics & graph theory. The art of counting / David Bressoud ; The 2003 mathematics awareness month theme and poster / Joseph A. Gallian -- Applied mathematics. Heavenly mathematics: observing the sun and the moon from different parts of the world / Helmer Aslaksen ; Zero knowledge proofs / Steven G. Krantz ; Mathematical Rx / Helen Moore ; The agreeable society theorem / Francis Edward Su ; Central configurations--a problem for the twenty-first century / Donald G. Saari