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A Mathematical Gallery

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Lisl Gaal

Publication: AMS Non-Series Monographs
Publication Year: 2017; Volume 111
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-4159-3 (print); 978-1-4704-4274-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/111
MathSciNet review: MR3727104
MSC: Primary 00A66; Secondary 00A09, 01A05, 51M04

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Table of Contents

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Chapters

• Counting
• The Pythagorean theorem
• The volume of a pyramid
• The area of a circle
• Archimedes’s proof for the volume of a sphere
• Pascal’s triangle
• Gaussian integers
• Permutations
• The mathematics of probability and Markov processes
• Desargue’s theorem
• Seven circle theorem
• Calculus
• Multiplying ordinals
• A daughter’s perspective

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