"Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and str…
"Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and str…
The book contains problems designed to promote classroom discourse, student thinking, and the learning of different problem-solving strategies. A wide range of topics is covered from patterns and conversion to number theory, functions, probability and statistics, and geometry. P…
"First collection of A.K. Dewdney's popular "Computer recreations" columns, drawn from Scientific american magazine between 1984 and 1987"--Back cover