Table of Contents

Preface; 1. John Horton Conway - talking a good game; 2. Long run predictions; 3. The art gallery problem; Army beats Harvard in football and mathematics; 4. Fermat faces reality - a diophantine drama in one act; 5. Why history?; 6. Carving mathematics; 7. Word ladders - Lewis Carroll's doublets; 8. Professor of magic mathematics; Weird dice; 9. The Chinese domino challenge; 10. Making connections - a profile of Fan Chung; 11. Math on money; 12. The parallel climbers puzzle - a case study in the power of graph models; 13. A perfectly odd encounter in a reno café n; 14. In prime territory; 15. 1996 - A triple anniversary; 16. A nice genius; 17. An ABeCedarian history of mathematics; 18. Some surprising theorems about rectangles in triangles; 19. Annular rings of equal area; 20. Some new discoveries about 3 ˙ 3 magic squares; 21. The eccentricities of actors; 22. What's left?; 23. Egyptian rope, Japanese paper, and high school math; 24. Art Benjamin - mathemagician; 25. The PhD of comedy; 26. Legislating pi; 27. The ultimate flat tire; 28. The roots of the branches of mathematics; 29. The magician of Budapest; 30. Turning theorems into plays; 31. Cycloidal areas without calculus; 32. A bicentennial for the fundamental theorem of algebra; 33. Was Gauss smart?; 34. Adoption and reform of the Gregorian calendar; 35. Quadrilaterally speaking; 36. Stopwatch date; 37. A very simple, very paradoxical old space-filling curve; 38. Coal miner's daughter; 39. Beware of geeks bearing grifts; 40. The traveling baseball fan; 41. A dozen areal maneuvers; 42. Suppose you want to vote strategically; 43. TopSpin on the symmetric group; 44. Some new results on nonattacking chess tasks; 45. Dick Termes and his spheres; 46. The edge of the universe - noneuclidean wallpaper; 47. Alfred Bray Kempe's 'proof' of the four-color theorem; 48. A tale both shocking and hyperbolic; 49. Symbols of power; 50. The conquest of the Kepler conjecture; 51. A match made in mathematics; 52. How many women mathematicians can you name?; 53. If Pascal had a computer; 54. President Garfield and the Pythagorean theorem; 55. Life and death on the Go board; 56. In search of a practical map fold; 57. The world's first mathematics textbook; 58. The instability of democratic decisions; 59. A baseball giant, a math giant, and the epsilon in the middle; 60. Digging for squares; 61. A dozen questions about a triangle; 62. Geometry and gerrymandering; 63. Who is the greatest hitter of them all?; 64. Generalized cyclogons; 65. Fitch Cheney's five card trick; 66. The card game; 67. Truels and the future; 68. Unreasonable effectiveness; 69. How to ace literature - a streetwise guide for the math student; 70. Fibonacci's triangle and other abominations; 71. A switch in time pays fine?; 72. Paintings, plane tilings and proofs; 73. Knots to you; About the editors.

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Exquisite expositions of mathematics taken from the first ten years of the Math Horizons magazine.

Reviews

This beautiful and extensively illustrated book celebrates the first ten years of the student magazine, Math Horizons...This book would be an excellent addition to libraries and a terrific resource for mathematics clubs. It would be very suitable as a gift or prize for young mathematicians."" - Mary Coupland, The Australian Math Teacher