Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Note to the Reader
- NEW MATHEMATICAL LIBRARY
- Contents
- INGENUITY IN MATHEMATICS
- Preface
- Essay 1 Probability and π
- Essay 2 Odd and Even Numbers
- Essay 3 Sylvester's Problem of Collinear Triads
- Essay 4 The Algebra of Statements
- Essay 5 The Farey Series
- Essay 6 A Property of an
- Essay 7 Squaring the Square
- Essay 8 Writing a Number as a Sum of Two Squares
- Essay 9 The Isoperimetric Problem
- Essay 10 Five Curiosities from Arithmetic
- Essay 11 A Problem of Regiomontanus
- Essay 12 Complementary Sequences
- Essay 13 Pythagorean Arithmetic
- Essay 14 Abundant Numbers
- Essay 15 Mascheroni and Steiner
- Essay 16 A Property of Some Repeating Decimals
- Essay 17 The Theorem of Barbier
- Essay 18 The Series of Reciprocals of Primes
- Essay 19 Van Schooten's Problem
- Solutions to Exercises
- Bibliography
- Index
INGENUITY IN MATHEMATICS
- Frontmatter
- Note to the Reader
- NEW MATHEMATICAL LIBRARY
- Contents
- INGENUITY IN MATHEMATICS
- Preface
- Essay 1 Probability and π
- Essay 2 Odd and Even Numbers
- Essay 3 Sylvester's Problem of Collinear Triads
- Essay 4 The Algebra of Statements
- Essay 5 The Farey Series
- Essay 6 A Property of an
- Essay 7 Squaring the Square
- Essay 8 Writing a Number as a Sum of Two Squares
- Essay 9 The Isoperimetric Problem
- Essay 10 Five Curiosities from Arithmetic
- Essay 11 A Problem of Regiomontanus
- Essay 12 Complementary Sequences
- Essay 13 Pythagorean Arithmetic
- Essay 14 Abundant Numbers
- Essay 15 Mascheroni and Steiner
- Essay 16 A Property of Some Repeating Decimals
- Essay 17 The Theorem of Barbier
- Essay 18 The Series of Reciprocals of Primes
- Essay 19 Van Schooten's Problem
- Solutions to Exercises
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Ingenuity In Mathematics , pp. ix - xPublisher: Mathematical Association of AmericaPrint publication year: 1970