Expeditions in mathematics
By: edited by Tatiana Shubin, David Hayes, and Gerald Alexanderson
Contributors: Mathematical Association of America
Series: Spectrum series; MAA spectrum
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780883855713; 9780883859858
Subjects: Mathematics
Description: Collection of lectures, aimed at high school students and presented by prominent mathematicians as part of the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures program.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General:; title: Yearning for the impossible  -- John Stillwell.; title: Simple mathematical paradoxes  -- John Mitchem.; title: Mathemagical miracles  -- "Card Colm" Mulcahy.; title: The mathematics of sudoku  -- Tom Davis.; title: Infinity : cardinal numbers  -- Bjorn Poonen -- Number theory:; title: Some very interesting sequences  -- John H. Conway and Tim Hsu.; title: Are there infinitely many twin primes?  -- D.A. Goldston.; title: The Riemann hypothesis  -- J.B. Conrey -- Geometry & topology:; title: Is it knotted?  -- Joel Hass and Abigail Thompson.; title: A topological approach to molecular chirality  -- Erica Flapan.; title: A noneuclidean universe  -- Frank A. Farris.; title: Soap bubble clusters  -- Frank Morgan.; title: Maximum volume space quadrilaterals  -- Thomas Banchoff, with Nicholas Haber and Aaron Mazel-Gee -- Combinatorics & graph theory:; title: The art of counting  -- David Bressoud.; title: The 2003 Mathematics Awareness Month theme and poster  -- Joseph A. Gallian. -- Applied mathematics:; title: Heavenly mathematics : observing the sun and the moon from different parts of the world  -- Helmer Aslaksen.; title: Zero knowledge proofs  -- Steven G. Krantz.; title: Mathematical Rx  -- Helen Moore.; title: The agreeable society theorem  -- Francis Edward Su.; title: Central configurations : a problem for the twenty-first century -- Donald G. Saari.