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Mathematical Journeys is designed for a mathematically interested audience and consists of separate essays and lectures on distinct topics. Each chapter works up to real and very interesting mathematic results and includes real mathematics: proofs, theorems, and conjectures. Many essays are based on lectures that the author has given throughout his career at Middlebury College and elsewhere.
1. Let's Get Cooking: A Variety of Mathematical Ingredients -- 2. The Green Chicken Contest -- 3. The Josephus Problem: Please Choose Me Last -- 4. Nim and Wythoff's Game: Or How to Get Others to Pay Your Bar Bill -- 5. Mersenne Primes, Perfect Numbers, and Amicable Pairs -- 6. The Harmonic Series ... and Less -- 7. Fermat Primes, the Chinese Remainder Theorem, and Lattice Points -- 8. Tic-Tac-Toe, Magic Squares, and Latin Squares -- 9. Mathematical Variations on Rolling Dice -- 10. Pizza Slicing, Map Coloring, Pointillism, and Jack-in-the-Box -- 11. Episodes in the Calculation of Pi -- 12. A Sextet of Scintillating Problems -- 13. Primality Testing Below a Quadrillion -- 14. Erdos Number Zero -- 15. Choosing Stamps to Mail a Letter, Let Me Count the Ways -- 16. Pascal Potpourri -- App. Comments and Solutions to Problems Worth Considering.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, ©2004