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Which Way Did the Bicycle Go?: And Other Intriguing Mathematical Mysteries Paperback – 1 October 1996

by Dan Velleman (Author)

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This book contains the best problems selected from over 25 years of the Problem of the Week at Macalester College. This collection will give students, teachers, and university professors a chance to experience the pleasure of wrestling with some beautiful problems of elementary mathematics. Readers can compare their sleuthing talents with those of Sherlock Holmes, who made a bad mistake regarding the first problem in the collection: Determine the direction of travel of a bicycle that has left its tracks in a patch of mud. The collection contains a variety of other unusual and interesting problems in geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and number theory. For example, if a pizza is sliced into eight 45-degree wedges meeting at a point other than the center of the pizza, and two people eat alternating wedges, will they get equal amounts of pizza Or: Is an advertiser's claim that a certain unusual combination lock allows thousands of combinations justified Complete solutions to the 191 problems are included with problem variations and topics for investigation.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mathematical Assn of Amer (1 October 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0883853256
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0883853252
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 1.27 x 24.13 cm

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The best mathematics problem book I've ever seen. Love it.

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