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Ross Honsberger is the author of several best-selling and enthusiastically reviewed books published by the Mathematical Association of America. Mathematical Gems II follows and strengthens the tradition established by Honsberger. It has something for everyone - students, teachers, and armchair mathematicians alike. Here you will find gems from elementary combinatorics, number theory, and geometry. Each essay contains historical commentary, interesting anecdotes, mathematical background, and show more a careful discussion built around a famous problem, theorem, or mathematician. It also contains a collection of fascinating and illuminating exercises related to the topics of the essays. show lessTags
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Ross Honsberger: After more than a decade of teaching secondary school mathematics in Toronto, he took advantage of a sabbatical leave to study at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He joined its faculty in 1964 in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization and is now Professor Emeritus
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- Mathematical Gems II
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- Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 512.7 — Natural sciences & mathematics Mathematics Algebra Number theory
- LCC
- QA241 .H63 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Algebra
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