How the Other Half Thinks : Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning

by Stein, Sherman

• ISBN13: 9780071407984
• ISBN10: 0071407987
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

With its ingeniously intuitive approach, How the Other Half Thinks will appeal to those enthusiasts who are charmed by mathematics and its style of thinking, as well as those more tentative readers who would like to find out why advanced mathematics casts a spell over so many of its followers. At once an entertaining, interactive mathematical exercise and an innovative exploration of mathematical reasoning, it will appeal to the enthusiast and the novice, the scientist and the humanist, and the left-brained and the right-brained.

Author Biography

Sherman Stein, Ph.D., has taught at the University of California at Davis. He is the recipient of the Lester R. Ford Award for Mathematical Exposition and the B eckenback Book Prize for Algebra and Tiling (with S. Szabó). He also received the Distinguished Teaching Award at his campus and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marietta College.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Needle and the Noodle	p. 1
Win by Two	p. 19
The Complete Triangle	p. 43
Slumps and Streaks	p. 61
Thrifty Strings	p. 73
Counting Ballots	p. 97
Infinity	p. 121
Twins	p. 135
Epilogue: A Backward Glance	p. 151
Appendixes	p. 155
Triangles	p. 157
Twins: A Supplement	p. 161
For Further Reading	p. 167
Index	p. 173
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