The Lighter Side of Mathematics
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and its History (Spectrum)
Contributors: Richard K. Guy (Editor); Robert E. Woodrow (Editor)
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780883855164
Subjects: Recreations & Games; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Essays; Mathematical recreations - Congresses; Mathematics / General; Mathematics / Essays; Mathematics / Recreations & Games; Congresses; Mathematical Recreations
First sentence: The material in this article is not new, except perhaps for the final formulae in Section 3, but we have tried to present proofs of some known results in an intuitive and recreational manner.