Mathematical adventures for students and amateurs

By: Edited by Hayes, David FContributor(s): Shubin, TatianaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: USA: Mathematical Association of America, [c2004]Description: 291 pISBN: 9780883855485LOC classification: QA7
Contents:
I General 1. Prime Numbers and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Carl Pomerance 2. Space Shuttle Geometry, Helen Moore 3. Mathematicians versus the Silicon Age: Who Wins?, Sheldon Axler 4. Breaking Driver’s License Codes, Joseph A. Gallian 5. Jumping Frogs and Powers of Two, Paul Zeitz II Number Theory 6. Triangles, Squares, Oranges and Cuboids, Peter Stevenhagen 7. When Is an Integer the Product of Two and of Three Consecutive Integers? Edward F Schaefer 8. Right Triangles and Elliptic Curves, Karl Rubin III Combinatorics and Probability 9. Proofs that Really Count: The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers and More, Arthur T. Benjamin & Jennifer J Quinn 10. Juggling Patterns, Passing, and Posets, Joe Buhler & Ron Graham 11. Platonic Divisions of Space, Jean Pedersen 12. Probability by Surprise, Susan Holmes IV Geometry and Topology 13. The Rule of False Position, Don Chakerian 14. Geometric Puzzles and Constructions—Six Classical Geometry Theorems, Zvezdelina Stankova 15. Cusps, Dmitry Fuchs 16. Triangles and Curvature, Richard Scott V Applications and History 17. Archimedes and his Floating Paraboloids, Sherman Stein 18. Mathematical Mapping from Mercator to the Millennium, Robert Osserman 19. Alice in Numberland: an informal dramatic presentation in 8 fits
Summary: This is a partial record of the Bay Area Math Adventures (BAMA), a lecture series for high school students (and incidentally their teachers, parents, and other interested adults) hosted by San Jose State and Santa Clara Universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. These lectures are aimed primarily at talented high school students and as a result, the mathematics in some cases is far from what one would expect to see in talks at this level. There are serious mathematical issues addressed here. The authors are distinguished mathematicians; some are bright newcomers while others have been well known in mathematical circles for decades. We hope that this book will capture some of the magic of these talks that have filled auditoriums at the host schools almost monthly for several years. Join the students in sharing these mathematical adventures.
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I General
1. Prime Numbers and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Carl Pomerance
2. Space Shuttle Geometry, Helen Moore
3. Mathematicians versus the Silicon Age: Who Wins?, Sheldon Axler
4. Breaking Driver’s License Codes, Joseph A. Gallian
5. Jumping Frogs and Powers of Two, Paul Zeitz

II Number Theory
6. Triangles, Squares, Oranges and Cuboids, Peter Stevenhagen
7. When Is an Integer the Product of Two and of Three Consecutive Integers? Edward F Schaefer
8. Right Triangles and Elliptic Curves, Karl Rubin

III Combinatorics and Probability
9. Proofs that Really Count: The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers and More, Arthur T. Benjamin & Jennifer J Quinn
10. Juggling Patterns, Passing, and Posets, Joe Buhler & Ron Graham
11. Platonic Divisions of Space, Jean Pedersen
12. Probability by Surprise, Susan Holmes

IV Geometry and Topology
13. The Rule of False Position, Don Chakerian
14. Geometric Puzzles and Constructions—Six Classical Geometry Theorems, Zvezdelina Stankova
15. Cusps, Dmitry Fuchs
16. Triangles and Curvature, Richard Scott

V Applications and History
17. Archimedes and his Floating Paraboloids, Sherman Stein
18. Mathematical Mapping from Mercator to the Millennium, Robert Osserman
19. Alice in Numberland: an informal dramatic presentation in 8 fits

This is a partial record of the Bay Area Math Adventures (BAMA), a lecture series for high school students (and incidentally their teachers, parents, and other interested adults) hosted by San Jose State and Santa Clara Universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. These lectures are aimed primarily at talented high school students and as a result, the mathematics in some cases is far from what one would expect to see in talks at this level. There are serious mathematical issues addressed here. The authors are distinguished mathematicians; some are bright newcomers while others have been well known in mathematical circles for decades. We hope that this book will capture some of the magic of these talks that have filled auditoriums at the host schools almost monthly for several years. Join the students in sharing these mathematical adventures.

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