The math chat book

Frank Morgan

128 pages, parution le 01/01/2000

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Résumé

This book shows that mathematics can be fun for everyone. It grew out of Frank Morgan's live, call-in Math Chat TV show and biweekly Math Chat column in The Christian Science Monitor. The questions, comments, and even the answers come largely from the callers and readers themselves.

Why does the new year start earlier in Europe ?
Why is the Fourth of July on a different day of the week each year ?
How can you be elected President with just 52% of the vote?
Can a computer have free will?
Didn't some kid find a mistake on the SATs ?
Do airplanes get lighter as passengers eat lunch?
College students make important progress on the Double Bubble Conjecture.

This book makes no attempt to fit any mold. Although written by a research mathematician, it goes where the callers and readers take it, over a wide range of topics and levels. Almost anyone paging through it will find something of interest. It is time for everyone to see how much fun mathematics can be.

First story : Time
- Riddle O'clock
- Does the sun rise in the East ?
- Leap years
- ...
Second story : Probabilities and possibilities
- Baby boys and girls and world population
- Predicting the random
- The Bible code and personal coincidences
- ...
Third story : Prime numbers and computing
- New largest prime numbers
- Four 4s
- Power of 5
- ...
Fourth story : Geometry
- The double soap bubble breakthrough
- Shortest road networks
- Can three states meet at more than one point ?
Fifth story : Physics and the world
- Balls inthe air and falling elevators
- Do airplanes get lighter as passengers eat lunch ?
- Tides and spinning sprinklers
- ...
Index

L'auteur - Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan is Dennis Meenan Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College and Second Vice-President of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). He has received one of the first MAA Haimo awards for distinguished teaching, MIT's Baker teaching award, and an honorary doctorate from Cedar Crest College. Morgan went to MIT and Princeton, taught for ten years at MIT (where he served as Undergraduate Mathematics Chair), and came to Williams in 1987, where he has served as chair and as founding director of an NSF undergraduate research program. Morgan's three other books all now have new editions: Geometric Measure Theory: a Beginner's Guide; Riemannian Geometry: a Beginner's Guide; and Calculus Lite.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Auteur(s)	Frank Morgan
Parution	01/01/2000
Nb. de pages	128
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	185g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780883855300
ISBN13	978-0-88385-530-0