The edge of the universe : celebrating 10 years of Math horizons /
"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 st...
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The edge of the universe : |b celebrating 10 years of Math horizons / |c edited by Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Celebrating 10 years of Math horizons |
| 246 | 3 | |a Celebrating ten years of Math horizons | |
| 260 | |a [Washington, D.C.] : |b Mathematical Association of America, |c c2006. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 303 p. : |b ill. (some col.), ports. ; |c 29 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a John Horton Conway : talking a good game / Donald J. Albers -- Long run predictions / Mark F. Schilling -- The art gallery problem / Alan Tucker -- Army bets 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 / Donald J. Albers -- Word ladders : Lewis Carroll's doublets / Martin Gardner -- Professor of magic, er, mathematics / Donald J. albers -- Weird dice / Joseph A. Gallian -- The Chinese domino challenge / Don Knuth -- Making conections : a profile of Fan Chung / Donald J. Albers -- Math on money / Joseph A. Gallian -- The parallel climbers puzzle : a case study in the power of graph models / Alan Tucker -- A perfectly odd encounter in a Reno café / Dan Kalman -- In prime territory / Ellen Gethner -- 1996 : a triple anniversary / William Dunham -- A nice genius / Donald J. Albers -- An ABeCedarian history of mathematics / Stephen Kennedy -- Some surprising theorems about rectangles in triangles / Martin Gardner -- Annular rings of equal area / Mamikon Mnatsakanian -- Some new discoveries about 3 x 3 magic squares / Martin Gardner -- The eccentricities of actors / John M. Harris, Michael J. Massinghoff -- What's left? / Richard Guy -- Egyptian rope, Japanese paper, and high school math / David Gale -- Art Benjamin : mathematician / Donald J. Albers -- The PhD of comedy / Deanna Haunsperger, Stephen Kennedy -- Legislating pi / Underwood Dudley -- The ultimate flat tire / Stan Wagon -- The roots of the branches of mathematics / Rheta Rubenstein, Randy Schwartz -- The magician of Budapest / Peter Schumer -- Turning theorems into plays / Stephen D. Abbott -- Cycloidal areas without calculus / Tom M. Apostol, 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 / William Dunham -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Stopwatch date / Phil Grizzard -- A very simple, very paradoxical old space-filling curve / Ira Rosenholtz -- Coal miner's daughter / Donna Hausperger, Stephen Kennedy -- Beware of geeks bearing grifts / Allen J. Schwenk -- The traveling baseball fan / Rick Cleary, Dan Faga, Alex Liu, 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 / Martin Gardner -- 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 -- Symbols of power / Stephen Kennedy --The conquest of the Kepler conjecture / Dinoj Surendran -- A match made in mathemtics / Olivia M. Carducci -- How many women mathematicians can you name? / Judy Green -- If Pascal had a computer / Thaddeus N. Selden, Bruce F. Torrence -- President Garfield and the Pythagorean theorem / Victor E. Hill, IV -- Life and death on the go board / Peter Schumer -- In search of a practical map fold / Thomas Hull -- The world's first mathematics textbook / Underwood Dudley -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The instability of democratic decisions / Philip D. Straffin, Jr. -- A baseball giant, a math giant, and the epsilon in the middle / Carl Pomerance -- Digging for squares / Paul C. Pasles -- A dozen questions about a triangle / James Tanton -- Geometry and gerrymandering / Rick Gillman -- Who is the greatest Hitler of them all? / Joseph A. Gallian -- Generalized cyclogens / Tom M. Apostol, Mamikon Mnatsakanian -- Fitch Cheney's five card trick / Colm Mulcahy -- The card game / Robert Schuerman -- Truels and the future / Steven J. Brams, D. Marc Kilgour -- Unreaonable effectiveness / Alex Kasman -- How to ace literature : a streetwise guide for the math student / Katherine Socha, Michael Starbird -- Fibonacci's triangle and other abominations / Doug Ensley -- A switch in time pays fine? / Mark Schilling -- Paintings, plane tilings and proofs / Roger B. Nelsen -- Knots to you / Michael McDaniel. | |
| 520 | |a "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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| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematics in literature. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Kennedy, Stephen. | |
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