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One Hundred Problems in Elementary Mathematics

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Both a challenge to mathematically inclined readers and a useful supplementary text for high school and college courses, One Hundred Problems in Elementary Mathematics presents an instructive, stimulating collection of problems. Many problems address such matters as numbers, equations, inequalities, points, polygons, circles, ellipses, space, polyhedra, and spheres. An equal number deal with more amusing or more practical subjects, such as a picnic ham, blood groups, rooks on a chessboard, and the doings of the ingenious Dr. Abracadabrus.
Are the problems in this book really elementary? Perhaps not in the lay reader’s sense, for anyone who desires to solve these problems must know a fair amount of mathematics, up to calculus. Nevertheless, Professor Steinhaus has given complete, detailed solutions to every one of his 100 problems, and anyone who works through the solutions will painlessly learn an astonishing amount of mathematics. A final chapter provides a true test for the most proficient readers: 13 additional unsolved problems, including some for which the author himself does not know the solutions.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

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November 3, 2020
Bei problemi: peccato per la prosa

Se un matematico come Steinhaus parla di problemi matematici "elementari", potete essere certi che non lo dice nel senso di "facili". Questo vecchio libretto raccoglie cento problemi che non richiedono conoscenze a livello universitario per essere risolti, ma non sono certo facili. La maggior parte di essi erano (e in buona parte sono ancora) poco noti, il che è piacevole per chi come me legge molti libri di problemi; poi c'è anche il tocco finale di una dozzina abbondante di problemi finali senza risposta, e senza che necessariamente la risposta fosse nota a Steinhaus stesso, che possono dare al lettore con un buon background matematico un' idea di cosa sia effettivamente il lavoro di un matematico. L'unica pecca è la prosa: Steinhaus aveva scritto il libretto in polacco, e la traduzione inglese è piuttosto pesante da leggere.
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