Lateral Solutions to Mathematical Problems (Ak Peters/Crc Recreational Mathematics) - Softcover

MacHale, Desmond

 
9781032370927: Lateral Solutions to Mathematical Problems (Ak Peters/Crc Recreational Mathematics)

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This book offers a fresh approach to mathematical problem solving via lateral thinking. This book is appropriate for interested high school students, undergraduates and postgraduates, looking for relief from technical material and also looking for insight into the methodology of mathematics.

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Des MacHale was born in Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mathematical Science from University College Galway and a Ph.D. degree in Algebra from the University of Keele in the UK. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, where he taught for forty years. He is author of over sixty published books on such diverse topics as Lateral Thinking Puzzles (with Paul Sloane), Wit, Jokes, Puzzles, George Boole,John Ford's movie The Quiet Man, and giving up smoking. Among his interests are Geology (in which he has a diploma), photography, broadcasting, book collecting, recreational mathematics, humour, family history, and puzzles of all kinds. He and his long-suffering wife Anne have five wonderful children and three even more wonderful grandchildren and live in Cork. Logic Press (logicpress.ie) publishes books related to Mathematics, including other titles by Des MacHale, and has a Less Serious Division (logicpress.ie/LS/), which caters to the rest of life.

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9781032376998: Lateral Solutions to Mathematical Problems (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics)

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ISBN 10:  1032376996 ISBN 13:  9781032376998
Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2023
Hardcover