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The edge of the universe : celebrating 10 years of Math horizons
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"Math Horizons celebrates the people and ideas that are mathematics. Containing the editors' selection from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositio...
"Math Horizons celebrates the people and ideas that are mathematics. Containing the editors' selection from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of mathematics accessible at the level of an undergraduate or advanced high school student"--Back cover.
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- edited by Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy
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- Cover title: Edge of the universe : celebrating ten years of Math horizons
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- Math horizons (Washington, D.C.)
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- English
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, [2006]
- ©2006
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- 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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- 0883855550, 9780883855553, 9781470458577
- OCLC
- ocm71849192
- Includes bibliographical references.
- John Horton Conway -- Talking a Good Game / Donald J. Albers -- Long Run Predictions / Mark F. Schilling -- The Art Gallery Problem / Alan Tucker -- Army Beats Harvard in Football and Mathematics / David C. Arney -- Fermat Faces Reality -- A Diophantine Drama in One Act / Kenneth M. Hoffman -- Why History? / Underwood Dudley -- Carving Mathematics / Word Ladders -- Lewis Carroll's Doublets / Martin Gardner -- Professor of Magic Mathematics / Weird Dice / Joseph A. Gallian -- The Chinese Domino Challenge / Don Knuth -- Making Connections -- A Profile of Fan Chung / Math on Money / The Parallel Climbers Puzzle -- A Case Study in the Power of Graph Models / A Perfectly Odd Encounter in a Reno Café / Dan Kalman -- In Prime Territory / Ellen Gethner -- 1996 -- A Triple Anniversary / William Dunham -- A Nice Genius / An ABeCedarian History of Mathematics / Stephen Kennedy -- Some Surprising Theorems About Rectangles in Triangles / Annular Rings of Equal Area / Mamikon Mnatsakanian -- Some New Discoveries About $3\times 3$ Magic Squares / The Eccentricities of Actors / John M. Harris and Michael J. Mossinghoff -- What's Left? / Richard Guy -- Egyptian Rope, Japanese Paper, and High School Math / David Gale -- Art Benjamin -- Mathemagician / The PhD of Comedy / Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy -- Legislating Pi / The Ultimate Flat Tire / Stan Wagon -- The Roots of the Branches of Mathematics / Rheta Rubenstein and Randy Schwartz -- The Magician of Budapest / Peter Schumer -- Turning Theorems into Plays / Stephen D. Abbott -- Cycloidal Areas without Calculus / Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian -- A Bicentennial for the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra / Barry Cipra -- Was Gauss Smart? / Thomas E. Moore -- Adoption and Reform of the Gregorian Calendar / Edward L. Cohen -- Quadrilaterally Speaking / Stopwatch Date / Phil Grizzard -- A Very Simple, Very Paradoxical Old Space-Filling Curve / Ira Rosenholtz -- Coal Miner's Daughter / Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts / Allen J. Schwenk -- The Traveling Baseball Fan / Rick Cleary, Dan Faga, Alex Liu and Jason Topel -- A Dozen Areal Maneuvers / James Tanton -- Suppose You Want to Vote Strategically / Donald Saari -- TopSpin on the Symmetric Group / Curtis D. Bennett -- Some New Results on Nonattacking Chess Tasks / Dick Termes and his Spheres / Sandra Keith -- The Edge of the Universe -- Noneuclidean Wallpaper / Frank Farris -- Alfred Bray Kempe's "Proof" of the Four-Color Theorem / Timothy Sipka -- A Tale Both Shocking and Hyperbolic / Douglas Dunham --