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Which way did the bicycle go: and other intriguing mathematical mysteries

By Dan Velleman

Book information

Publisher
The Mathematical Association of America
Year
1996
ISBN
9780883853252, 0883853256
LCC
QA43 .K643 1996
Open Library ID
OL824917M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4532701 bytes)
Series
Dolciani Mathematical Expositions
Pages
255\255
Library
kolxoz
DPI
300
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Математика;Математические олимпиады

Description

This book contains the best problems selected from over 25 years of the Problem of the Week at Macalester College. This collection will give students, teachers, and university professors a chance to experience the pleasure of wrestling with some beautiful problems of elementary mathematics. Readers can compare their sleuthing talents with those of Sherlock Holmes, who made a bad mistake regarding the first problem in the collection: Determine the direction of travel of a bicycle that has left its tracks in a patch of mud. The collection contains a variety of other unusual and interesting problems in geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and number theory. For example, if a pizza is sliced into eight 45-degree wedges meeting at a point other than the center of the pizza, and two people eat alternating wedges, will they get equal amounts of pizza? Or: Is an advertiser's claim that a certain unusual combination lock allows thousands of combinations justified? Complete solutions to the 191 problems are included with problem variations and topics for investigation.

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