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Description:Expeditions in Mathematics is a collection of some of the best talks from the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures (BAMA) program. Begun in 1998 to appeal to high school students, BAMA now attracts an enthusiastic following of the region’s teachers, parents, mathematics aficionados, and students.The stellar collection of experts includes John Horton Conway, Don Saari, Bjorn Poonen, John Stillwell, Tom Banchoff, Francis Su, Steven Krantz, and David Bressoud—all fine mathematicians, renowned expositors, and well-known writers.Catalogued under five mathematical headings, the topics include progress toward proving the twin primes conjecture; surprising mathematical paradoxes; facts about unnatural sequences of integers; applications of topology to questions in chemistry; ways of deciding when a tangle of string is actually a knot; how the medieval ranking of angels was related to the location of the planets, and by whom; the volume of a tetrahedron formed by a space rhombus; how the heavenly bodies seem to behave when viewed from the tropics and from the Southern Hemisphere; the latest techniques in cryptography; and determining preferences in voting.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Expeditions in Mathematics. To get started finding Expeditions in Mathematics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 400

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2011

ISBN: 0883855712

Description: Expeditions in Mathematics is a collection of some of the best talks from the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures (BAMA) program. Begun in 1998 to appeal to high school students, BAMA now attracts an enthusiastic following of the region’s teachers, parents, mathematics aficionados, and students.The stellar collection of experts includes John Horton Conway, Don Saari, Bjorn Poonen, John Stillwell, Tom Banchoff, Francis Su, Steven Krantz, and David Bressoud—all fine mathematicians, renowned expositors, and well-known writers.Catalogued under five mathematical headings, the topics include progress toward proving the twin primes conjecture; surprising mathematical paradoxes; facts about unnatural sequences of integers; applications of topology to questions in chemistry; ways of deciding when a tangle of string is actually a knot; how the medieval ranking of angels was related to the location of the planets, and by whom; the volume of a tetrahedron formed by a space rhombus; how the heavenly bodies seem to behave when viewed from the tropics and from the Southern Hemisphere; the latest techniques in cryptography; and determining preferences in voting.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Expeditions in Mathematics. To get started finding Expeditions in Mathematics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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