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Math charmers : tantalizing tidbits for the mind / by Posamentier, Alfred S.(CARDINAL)520341;
Subjects: Mathematics;
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The Pythagorean theorem : the story of its power and beauty / by Posamentier, Alfred S.(CARDINAL)520341;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.Pythagoras and his famous Theorem -- Proving the Pythagorean Theorem without (many) words -- Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem -- Pythagorean triples and their properties -- The Pythagorean means -- Tuning the soul : Pythagoras and music -- The Pythagorean Theorem in fractal art -- About the mathematics work that led to the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry : thanks ultimately to Pythagoras / by Herbert A. Hauptman -- Pictorial depictions of Pythagoras and his famous Theorem -- Appendix A. Some selected proofs -- Appendix B. Some more proofs and solutions -- Appendix C. List of primitive Pythagorean triples -- Appendix D. List of Pythagorean triples : primitive and nonprimitive.
Subjects: Pythagorean theorem.;
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The joy of geometry / by Posamentier, Alfred S.,author.(CARDINAL)520341;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-152).Introduction -- Concurrent lines -- Collinearity -- Circles and concyclic points -- On quadrilaterals -- On circles -- Admiring other geometric phenomena -- The golden rectangle -- Geometric mistakes."A veteran math educator reveals the hidden fascinations of geometry and why this staple of math education is important"--
Subjects: Geometry;
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Mathematical amazements and surprises : fascinating figures and noteworthy numbers / by Posamentier, Alfred S.; Lehmann, Ingmar.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.Amazing number properties and relationships -- Arithmetic entertainments and novelties -- Arithmetic loops -- Geometry surprises -- Mathematical nuggets : amazing, but true! -- Appendix. List of triangular, square, and cubic numbers.With many entertaining examples of mathematical curiosities, educators Posamentier and Lehmann have created the perfect introduction to the wonders of mathematics for the general reader, requiring only a high school background in the subject
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Mathematics; Number theory;
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Pi : a biography of the world's most mysterious number / by Posamentier, Alfred S.(CARDINAL)520341; Lehmann, Ingmar.(CARDINAL)463772;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Pi.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The fabulous Fibonacci numbers / by Posamentier, Alfred S.(CARDINAL)520341; Lehmann, Ingmar.(CARDINAL)463772;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373) and index.The most ubiquitous, and perhaps the most intriguing, number pattern in mathematics is the Fibonacci sequence. In this simple pattern beginning with two ones, each succeeding number is the sum of the two numbers immediately preceding it (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ad infinitum). Far from being just a curiosity, this sequence recurs in structures found throughout nature - from the arrangement of whorls on a pinecone to the branches of certain plant stems. All of which is astounding evidence for the deep mathematical basis of the natural world.
Subjects: Fibonacci numbers.;
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The mathematics of everyday life / by Posamentier, Alfred S.,author.(CARDINAL)520341; Spreitzer, Christian,1979-author.(CARDINAL)823172;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Mathematics;
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Numbers : their tales, types, and treasures / by Posamentier, Alfred S.,author.; Thaller, Bernd,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and index.Numbers and counting -- Numbers and psychology -- Numbers in history -- Discovering properties of numbers -- Counting for poets -- Number explorations -- Placement of numbers -- Special numbers -- Number relationships -- Numbers and proportions -- Numbers and philosophy.
Subjects: Number concept.; Counting.; Arithmetic;
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Math makers : the lives and works of 50 famous mathematicians / by Posamentier, Alfred S.,author.(CARDINAL)520341; Spreitzer, Christian,1979-author.(CARDINAL)823172;
Introduction -- Thales of Miletus : Greek (c.624-546 BCE) -- Pythagoras : Greek (575-500 BCE) -- Eudoxus : Greek (408-355 BCE) -- Euclid : Greek (c.300 BCE) -- Archimedes : Greek(c.287-c.212 BCE) -- Eratosthenes : Greek (276-194 BCE) -- Claudius Ptolemy : Greco-Roman (100-170) -- Diophantus of Alexandria : Hellenistic Greek (c.201-285) -- Brahmagupta : India (598-670) -- Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, "Fibonacci" : Italian (1170-1250) -- Gerolamo Cardano : Italian (1501-1576) -- John Napier : Scottish (1550-1617) -- Johannes Kepler : German (1571- 1630) -- Rene Descartes : French (1596-1650) -- Pierre de Fermat : French (1607-1665) -- Blaise Pascal : French (1623-1662) -- Isaac Newton : English (1642-1727) -- Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz : German (1646-1716) -- Giovanni Ceva : Italian (1647-1734) -- Robert Simson : Scottish (1687-1768) -- Christian Goldbach : German (1690-1764) -- The Bernoullis, Daniel Bernoulli : Swiss (1700-1782) -- Leonhard Euler : Swiss (1707-1783) -- Maria Agnesi : Italian (1718-1799).Pierre-Simon de Laplace : French (1749-1827) -- Lorenzo Mascheroni : Italian (1750-1800) -- Nathaniel Bowditch : American (1773 - 1838) -- Sophie Germain : French (1776-1831) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss : German (1777-1855) -- Charles Babbage : English (1791-1871) -- Niels Henrik Abel : Norwegian (1802-1829) -- Evariste Galois : French (1811-1832) -- James Joseph Sylvester : English (1814-1897) -- Ada Lovelace : English (1815-1852) -- George Boole : English (1815-1864) -- Bernhard Riemann : German (1826-1866) -- Georg Cantor : German (1845-1918) -- Sofia Kovalevskaya : Russian (1850-1891) -- Giuseppe Peano : Italian (1858-1932) -- David Hilbert : German (1862-1943) -- G.H. Hardy : English (1877-1947) -- Emmy Noether : German (1882-1935) -- Srinivasa Ramanujan : India (1887-1920) -- John von Neumann : Hungarian-American (1903-1957) -- Kurt Godel : Austrian-American (1906-1978) -- Alan Turing : English (1912-1954) -- Paul Erdos : Hungarian (1913-1996) -- Herbert A. Hauptman : American (1917-2011) -- Benoit Mandelbrot : Polish-American (1924-2010) -- Maryam Mirzakhani : Iranian (1977-2017)."Two veteran math educators concisely profile leading mathematicians throughout history highlighting their often unusual personalities and lives while giving average readers insights into the importance of their mathematical discoveries."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Mathematicians; Mathematics;
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Challenging problems in geometry / by Posamentier, Alfred S.(CARDINAL)520341; Salkind, Charles T.,1898-1968.(CARDINAL)820256;
Subjects: Problems and exercises.; Geometry;
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