Mathematical Vistas From a Room with Many Windows

Focusing YourAttention We have called this book Mathematical Vistas because we have already published a companion book MathematicalRefiections in the same series;1 indeed, the two books are dedicated to the same principal purpose - to stimulate the interest ofbrightpeople in mathematics.Itis not our...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hilton, Peter, Holton, Derek (Author), Pedersen, Jean (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Paradoxes in Mathematics
  • 2 Not the Last of Fermat
  • 3 Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers: Their Connections and Divisibility Properties
  • 4 Paper-Folding, Polyhedra-Building, and Number Theory
  • 5 Are Four Colors Really Enough?
  • 6 From Binomial to Trinomial Coefficients and Beyond
  • 7 Catalan Numbers
  • 8 Symmetry
  • 9 Parties
  • Selected Answers to Breaks