Mathematicals Treks

From surreal Numbers to Magic Circles

Ivars Peterson

180 pages, parution le 29/10/2002

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Résumé

The first book in a joint publishing venture between the MAA and Science News
In 1995, Ivars Peterson and his colleagues at Science News began planning the magazine's debut on the World Wide Web. Ivars Peterson, who had long admired Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" columns in Scientific American decided to write a weekly on-line column about various aspects of mathematics. The MAA offered to post these articles on the MAA website, which became the immensely popular "Math Treks" column in MAA Online (http://www.maa.org/news/columns.html).
The first article appeared on MAA Online on February 26, 1996 on the chess match between world champion Garry Kasparov and Chess computer Deep Blue. Since then he has written more than 250 articles on a wide range of topics in mathematics and its applications, along wire a glance at old puzzles, famous problems and historic events: anything mathematical that happens to catch his eye.

Contents

1. Calculation and the chess master
2. The cow in the classroom
3. A passion for Pi
4. Computing in the surreal realm
5. Pythagorus plays ball
6. Recycling topology
7. Soap films and grid walks
8. Mating games and lizards
9. Random bits
10. Spreading rumors
11. Towards a fairer expansion draft
12. Cracking the ball-control myth
13. Math and a music education
14. Sprouts
15. Groups, graphs and Paul Erdos
16. DNA adds up
17. Computing with the EDSAC
18. Waring experiments
19. Old and new arithmetic
20. Matchsticks in the summer.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Auteur(s)	Ivars Peterson
Parution	29/10/2002
Nb. de pages	180
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	255g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780883855379
ISBN13	978-0-88385-537-9