epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:du Sautoy, Marcus

HOW CAN MATH HELP YOU WIN AT MONOPOLY? Monopoly appears to be a pretty random game. You throw two dice and speed around the board in your car or strut ...

epub |eng | | Author:Clifford A. Pickover

Figure 5.3 A 4-D being would be the ultimate Houdini and could knot or unknot a string by temporarily lifting it into the fourth dimension. On the left is a ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Bill Handley

It also works for subtracting numbers near the same tens value. Here’s another: Test yourself Try these for yourself: a) 13 − 8 = b) 17 − 8 = c) ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Matt Parker [Parker, Matt]

The Tower of Hanoi from Récréations mathématiques. The Tower of Hanoi, or to quote Lucas exactly, ‘La Tour d’Hanoï’, takes up only three pages in the book, roughly a third ...

mobi |es | 2009-03-30 | Author:Malba Tahan

—¿Por qué tanto ruido, perros?, grité exaltado. ¡Eso no tiene importancia alguna! Naturalmente, el Visir, nuestro grande amigo y protector quiere resolver con urgencia un problema de Matemáticas y precisa ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Fernandez, Oscar E.

xviA general logistic equation looks like p′= ap − bp2, where a and b are numbers. In 1837 the Dutch mathematical biologist Pierre-François Verhulst introduced this mathematical model (with a, ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Mazur, Joseph

But, then, why did Bombelli give us the following long list of redundant products of dignità? It looks as if figure 14.2 represents a doodling account of sheep to put ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Posamentier, Alfred S. & Lehmann, Ingmar [Posamentier, Alfred S.]

Hint: Mathematicians have been frustrated by this question, as they believe it requires thirteen hours, which would make it impossible for them to leave the cave with a flashlight having ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Byster, Mike [Byster, Mike]

My developmental delays made it essential for me to do things a tad differently and approach problems or tasks from an unusual angle or perspective. From the time I was ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alex Bellos [Bellos, Alex]

(2) If k is less than the number I turned over, I say the number I turned over is highest. (3) If k is more than the number I turned ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Reimer, David [Reimer David]

Now remove the ninth; in other words, subtract 2 from 18. The Egyptians would do this by completing 2 to 18. The answer is 16. All that’s left to do ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Ian Livingstone

Score yourself using the TOUGH score table and turn to 11. 200 Dots and Triangles Start the clock! How many triangles of all possible sizes can you get from this ...

epub, pdf |eng | 1989-06-01 | Author:Theoni Pappas [Pappas, Theoni]

Now let’s try to tessellate a floor using equilateral triangles. Each angle in a equilateral triangle is 60º . We see we can lay six identical equilateral triangles together, and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Banks, Robert B.

TABLE 15.2 About half of the 80 billion people lived between 1,000,000 B.C. and 4000 B.C.; the other half since then. During the nearly 2,000-year period from the year 0 ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Bonnie Averbach & Orin Chein

PRACTICE PROBLEMS 7.H In each of the positions in Figure 7.45, it is your move. Do you have a winning move? If so, what is it? FIGURE 7.45 In each ...