Which Way Did the Bicycle Go? : And Other Intriguing Mathematical Mysteries Paperback / softback
by Joseph D. E. Konhauser, Dan Velleman, Stan Wagon
Part of the Dolciani Mathematical Expositions series
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This collection will give students (high school or beyond), teachers, and university professors a chance to experience the pleasure of wrestling with some beautiful problems of elementary mathematics.
Readers can compare their sleuthing talents with those of Sherlock Holmes, who made a bad mistake regarding the first problem in the collection: Determine the direction of travel of a bicycle that has left its tracks in a patch of mud. Which Way did the Bicycle Go? contains a variety of other unusual and interesting problems in geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and number theory.
For example, if a pizza is sliced into eight 45-degree wedges meeting at a point other than the center of the pizza, and two people eat alternate wedges, will they get equal amounts of pizza? Or: What is the rightmost nonzero digit of the product $1\cdot 2\cdot 3\cdots 1,000,000$? Or: Is a manufacturer's claim that a certain unusual combination lock allows thousands of combinations justified?
Complete solutions to the 191 problems are included along with problem variations and topics for investigation.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:235 pages
- Publisher:American Mathematical Society
- Publication Date:30/12/1996
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- ISBN:9781470463823
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:235 pages
- Publisher:American Mathematical Society
- Publication Date:30/12/1996
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- ISBN:9781470463823