Both a challenge to mathematically inclined readers and a useful supplementary text for high school and college courses, One Hundred Problems in Elementary Mathematics presents an instructive, stimulating collection of problems. Many problems address such matters as numbers, equations, inequalities, points, polygons, circles, ellipses, space, polyhedra, and spheres. An equal number deal with more amusing or more practical subjects, such as a picnic ham, blood groups, rooks on a chessboard, and the doings of the ingenious Dr. Abracadabrus.Are the problems in this book really elementary? Perhaps not in the lay reader's sense, for anyone who desires to solve these problems must know a fair amount of mathematics, up to calculus. Nevertheless, Professor Steinhaus has given complete, detailed solutions to every one of his 100 problems, and anyone who works through the solutions will painlessly learn an astonishing amount of mathematics. A final chapter provides a true test for the most proficient readers: 13 additional unsolved problems, including some for which the author himself does not know the solutions.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-13
9780486238753
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106170750
Product Key Features
Author
H. Steinhaus
Publication Name
One Hundred Problems in Elementary Mathematics
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Mathematics
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
174 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
209mm
Item Width
140mm
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Title_Author
H. Steinhaus
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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