Rademacher / Toeplitz The Enjoyment of Math

Selections from Mathematics for the Amateur
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7608-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

What is so special about the number 30? How many colors are needed to color a map? Do the prime numbers go on forever? Are there more whole numbers than even numbers? These and other mathematical puzzles are explored in this delightful book by two eminent mathematicians. Requiring no more background than plane geometry and elementary algebra, this book leads the reader into some of the most fundamental ideas of mathematics, the ideas that make the subject exciting and interesting. Explaining clearly how each problem has arisen and, in some cases, resolved, Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz's deep curiosity for the subject and their outstanding pedagogical talents shine through.

Originally published in 1957.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rademacher, Hans

Toeplitz, Otto

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. v
Contents, pg. vii
Introduction, pg. 1
1. The Sequence of Prime Numbers, pg. 9
2. Traversing Nets of Curves, pg. 13
3. Some Maximum Problems, pg. 17
4. Incommensurable Segments and Irrational Numbers, pg. 22
5. A Minimum Property of the Pedal Triangle, pg. 27
6. A Second Proof of the Same Minimum Property, pg. 30
7. The Theory of Sets, pg. 34
8. Some Combinatorial Problems, pg. 43
9. On Waring's Problem, pg. 52
10. On Closed Self-Intersecting Curves, pg. 61
11. Is the Factorization of a Number into Prime Factors Unique?, pg. 66
12. The Four-Color Problem, pg. 73
13. The Regular Polyhedrons, pg. 82
14. Pythagorean Numbers and Fermat's Theorem, pg. 88
15. The Theorem of the Arithmetic and Geometric Means, pg. 95
16. The Spanning Circle of a Finite Set of Points, pg. 103
17. Approximating Irrational Numbers by Means of Rational Numbers, pg. 111
18. Producing Rectilinear Motion by Means of Linkages, pg. 119
19. Perfect Numbers, pg. 129
20. Euler's Proof of the Infinitude of the Prime Numbers, pg. 135
21. Fundamental Principles of Maximum Problems, pg. 139
22. The Figure of Greatest Area with a Given Perimeter, pg. 142
23. Periodic Decimal Fractions, pg. 147
24. A Characteristic Property of the Circle, pg. 160
25. Curves of Constant Breadth, pg. 163
26. The Indispensability of the Compass for the Constructions of Elementary Geometry, pg. 177
27. A Property of the Number 30, pg. 187
28. An Improved Inequality, pg. 192
Notes and Remarks, pg. 197

Über Autor(innen)

Hans Rademacher was an Affiliate of Rockefeller University and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania before his death in 1969. Otto Toeplitz was Professor of Mathematics in Kiel and Bonn.