The Heart of Mathematics4th EditionBurger, Edward B./ Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncISBN: 9781118371060
The Heart of Mathematics
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Muchos mangos. You inherit a large crate of mangos. The top layer has 18 mangos. Peering through the...Problem 2MS:
Packing balk. Your best friend is about to turn 21 and you want to send him a box full of Ping-Pong...Problem 3MS:
Alternative rock. You have an empty CD rack consisting of five shelves and you just bought five...Problem 4MS:
The Byrds. You have 16 new CDs to put on your empty five-shelf CD rack. Can you place the CDs so...Problem 5MS:
For the birds. Explain the Pigeonhole principle.Problem 6MS:
Treasure chest (ExH). Someone offers to give you a million dollars ($1,000,000) in one-dollar ($1)...Problem 7MS:
Order please. Order the following numbers from smallest to largest: number of telephones on the...Problem 8MS:
Penny for your thoughts (H). Two thousand years ago, a noble Arabian king wished to reward his...Problem 9MS:
Twenty-nine is hat. Find the most interesting property you can, unrelated to size, that the number...Problem 10MS:
Perfect numbers. The only natural numbers that divide evenly into 6. Other than 6 itself, are 1, 2,...Problem 11MS:
Many fold (S). Suppose you were able to take a large piece of paper of ordinary thickness and fold...Problem 12MS:
Only one cake. Suppose we had a room filled with 370 people. Will there be at least two people who...Problem 13MS:
For the birds. Years ago, before overnight delivery services and e-mail, people would send messages...Problem 14MS:
Sock hop (ExH). You have 10 pain of socks, five black and five blue, but they are not paired up....Problem 15MS:
The last one. Here is a game to be played with natural numbers. You start with any number. If the...Problem 16MS:
See the three. What proportion of the first 1000 natural numbers have a 3 somewhere in them? For...Problem 17MS:
See the three II (H). What proportion of the first 10,000 natural numbers contains a 3?Problem 19MS:
Commuting. One hundred people in your neighborhood always drive to work between 7:30 and 8:00 A.M....Problem 20MS:
RIP (S). The Earth has more than 6.8 billion people and almost no one lives 100 years. Suppose this...Problem 21MS:
Say the sequence. The following are the first few terms in a sequence. Can you figure out the next...Problem 22MS:
Lemonade. You want to buy a new car, and you know the model you want. The model has three options,...Problem 23MS:
With a group of folks. In a small group, discuss and work through the reasoning for why there are...Problem 24MS:
Ramanujan noodles (H). Ramanujan tells you that his Social Security number ends with the four digits...Problem 25MS:
Bird count. You want to know how many pigeons you have altogether in your seven pigeonholes. Your...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
Chapter 2.1 - CountingChapter 2.2 - Numerical Patterns In NatureChapter 2.3 - Prime Cuts Of NumbersChapter 2.4 - Crazy Clocks And Checking Out BarsChapter 2.5 - Public Secret Codes And How To Become A SpyChapter 2.6 - The Irrational Side Of NumbersChapter 2.7 - Get RealChapter 3.1 - Beyond NumbersChapter 3.2 - Comparing The InfiniteChapter 3.3 - The Missing Member
Chapter 3.4 - Travels Toward The Stratosphere Of InfinitiesChapter 3.5 - Straightening Up The Circ LeChapter 4.1 - Pythagoras And His HypotenuseChapter 4.2 - A View Of An Art GalleryChapter 4.3 - The Sexiest RectangleChapter 4.4 - Soothing Symmetry And Spinning PinwheelsChapter 4.5 - The Platonic Solids Turn AmorousChapter 4.6 - The Shape Of Reality?Chapter 4.7 - The Fourth DimensionChapter 5.1 - Rubber Sheet GeometryChapter 5.2 - The Band That Wouldn't Stop PlayingChapter 5.3 - Knots And LinksChapter 5.4 - Fixed Points, Hot Loops, And Rainy DaysChapter 6.1 - Circuit TrainingChapter 6.2 - Feeling Edgy?Chapter 6.3 - Plane Old GraphsChapter 6.4 - NetworkingChapter 7.1 - ImagesChapter 7.2 - The Infinitely Detailed Beauty Of FractalsChapter 7.3 - Between DimensionsChapter 7.4 - The Mysterious Art Of Imaginary FractalsChapter 7.5 - The Dynamics Of ChangeChapter 7.6 - Predetermined ChaosChapter 8.1 - Chance SurprisesChapter 8.2 - Predicting The Future In An Uncertain WorldChapter 8.3 - Random ThoughtsChapter 8.4 - Down For The CountChapter 8.5 - Drizzling, Defending, And DoctoringChapter 9.1 - Stumbling Through A Minefield Of DataChapter 9.2 - Getting Your Data To Shape UpChapter 9.3 - Looking At Super ModelsChapter 9.4 - Go FigureChapter 9.5 - War, Sports, And TigersChapter 10.1 - Great ExpectationsChapter 10.2 - RiskChapter 10.3 - Money MattersChapter 10.4 - Peril At The PollsChapter 10.5 - Cutting Cake For Greedy People
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