Which Way Did the Bicycle Go?: And Other Intriguing Mathematical Mysteries

di Joseph D. E. Konhauser (Autore)

Dan Velleman (Autore)

Stan Wagon (Autore)

American Mathematical Society, 1996

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.

• Autore: Joseph D. E. Konhauser, Dan Velleman, Stan Wagon
• Editore: American Mathematical Society
• Collana: Dolciani Mathematical Expositions
• Anno: 1996
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 235 p.
• EAN: 9781470463823

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