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Famous Puzzles of Great Mathematicians
About this Title
Miodrag S. Petković, University of Nis, Nis, Serbia
Publication: Miscellaneous Books
Publication Year:
2009; Volume 63
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4814-2 (print); 978-1-4704-1599-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/063
MathSciNet review: MR2541498
MSC: Primary 00A08; Secondary 01A70
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- 1. Recreational mathematics
- 2. Arithmetics
- 3. Number theory
- 4. Geometry
- 5. Tiling and packing
- 6. Physics
- 7. Combinatorics
- 8. Probability
- 9. Graphs
- 10. Chess
- 11. Miscellany
- Appendix A. Method of continued fractions for solving Pell’s equation
- Appendix B. Geometrical inversion
- Appendix C. Some basic facts from graph theory
- Appendix D. Linear difference equations with constant coefficients