How round is a cube? : and other curious mathematical ponderings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tanton, James, 1966- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Providence : American Mathematical Society, [2019]
Series:MSRI mathematical circles library ; 23.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Dragons and poison
  • Folding tetrahedra
  • The arbelos
  • Averages via distances
  • Ramsey theory
  • Inner triangles
  • Land or water?
  • Escape
  • Flipping a coin for a year
  • Coinciding digits
  • Inequalities
  • Gauss' shoelace formula
  • Subdividing a square into triangles
  • Equilateral lattice polygons
  • Broken sticks and viviani's theorem
  • Viviani's converse?
  • Integer right triangles
  • More question about integer right triangles
  • Intersecting circles
  • Counting triangular are square numbers
  • Balanced sums
  • The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence
  • Some partition numbers
  • Ordering colored fractions
  • How round is a cube?
  • Base and exponent switch
  • Associativity and commutativity puzzlers
  • Very triangular and very very triangular numbers
  • Torus circles
  • Trapezoidal numbers
  • Square permutations
  • Tupper's formula
  • Compositional square roots
  • Polynomial permutations.