The Edge of the Universe

Math Horizons celebrates the people and ideas that are mathematics. Containing the editors' selection from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of mathematics accessible at the level of an undergraduate or advanced school student. Broad and appealing, the coverage also includes fiction with mathematical themes; literary, theatrical, and cinematic criticism; humour; history; and social history. Mathematics is shown as a human endeavour through biographies and interviews of mathematicians and users of mathematics including artists, writers, and scientists. The puzzles, games, and activities throughout make it a valuable resource for student maths clubs. Though especially appealing to undergraduate math majors, academics in mathematics, and school teachers and their students, anyone with an interest in mathematics will delight in engaging this volume. Like the magazine from which it is drawn, this collection is an eclectic and wide-ranging look at the culture of mathematics.

ISBN 0883855550   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780883855553 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1100 Publisher Mathematical Association of America   Published in Washington Imprint Mathematical Association of America   Series title Spectrum S. Format Hardback   Height (mm) 276 Publication date 08 Feb 2007   Width (mm) 219 DEWEY 519.09   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General, Tertiary education Pages 316

		John Horton Conway - talking a good game by Donald J. Albers		1
		Long run predictions by Mark F. Schilling		5
		The art gallery problem by Alan Tucker		8
		Army beats Harvard in football and mathematics by David C. Arney		11
		Fermat faces reality - Diophantine drama in one act by Kenneth M. Hoffman		15
		Why history? by Underwood Dudley		16
		Carving mathematics by Donald J. Albers		18
		Word ladders - Lewis Carroll's doublets by Martin Gardner		22
		Professor of [actual symbol not reproducible] mathematics by Donald J. Albers		24
		Weird dice by Joseph A. Gallian		30
		The Chinese domino challenge by Don Knuth		32
		Making connections - profile of Fan Chung by Donald J. Albers		34
		Math on money by Joseph A. Gallian		38
		The parallel climbers puzzle - a case study in the power of graph models by Alan Tucker		40
		A perfectly odd encounter in a Reno cafe by Dan Kalman		43
		In prime territory by Ellen Gethner		46
		1996 - a triple anniversary by William Dunham		52
		A nice genius by Donald J. Albers		58
		An ABeCedarian history of mathematics by Stephen Kennedy		64
		Some surprising theorems about rectangles in triangles by Martin Gardner		66
		Annular rings of equal area by Mamkion Mnatsakanian		70
		Some new discoveries about 3 x 3 magic squares by Martin Gardner		74
		The eccentricities of actors by John M. Harris and Michael J. Mossinghoff		77
		What's left? by Richard Guy		81
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