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Author Posamentier, Alfred S.
Title Mathematical amazements and surprises : fascinating figures and noteworthy numbers / Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann ; afterword by Herbert A. Hauptman.
Imprint Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009.
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Call # QA99 .P665 2009
Phys. Description 269 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-260) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary This book will take you through a plethora of amazing and surprising examples of mathematical phenomena, each of which will contribute to your accepting our premise that there is real beauty--both visual and intellectual--in mathematics to be savored.
Subject Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
Number theory -- Miscellanea.
Alt Author Lehmann, Ingmar.
ISBN 9781591027232 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1591027233 (pbk. : alk. paper)