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A Primer for Mathematics Competitions PDF

362 Pages·2008·3.3 MB·English
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by Alexander Zawaira| 2008| 362 pages| 3.3| English

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The importance of mathematics competitions has been widely recognized for three they help to develop imaginative capacity and thinking skills whose value far transcends mathematics; they constitute the most effective way of discovering and nurturing mathematical talent; and they provide a means to combat the prevalent false image of mathematics held by high school students, as either a fearsomely difficult or a dull and uncreative subject. This book provides a comprehensive training resource for competitions from local and provincial to national Olympiad level, containing hundreds of diagrams, and graced by many light-hearted cartoons. It features a large collection of what mathematicians call and “beautiful and ” problems – non-routine, provocative, fascinating, and challenging problems, often with elegant solutions. It features careful, systematic exposition of a selection of the most important topics encountered in mathematics competitions, assuming little prior knowledge.Geometry, trigonometry, mathematical induction, inequalities, Diophantine equations, number theory, sequences and series, the binomial theorem, and combinatorics – are all developed in a gentle but lively manner, liberally illustrated with examples, and consistently motivated by attractive and “appetiser and ” problems, whose solution appears after the relevant theory has been expounded.Each chapter is presented as a and “toolchest and ” of instruments designed for cracking the problems collected at the end of the chapter. Other topics, such as algebra, co-ordinate geometry, functional equations and probability, are introduced and elucidated in the posing and solving of the large collection of miscellaneous problems in the final toolchest.An unusual feature of this book is the attention paid throughout to the history of mathematics – the origins of the ideas, the terminology and some of the problems, and the celebration of mathematics as a multicultural, cooperative human achievement.As a bonus the aspiring and “mathlete and ” may encounter, in the most enjoyable way possible, many of the topics that form the core of the standard school curriculum.

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Author:Alexander Zawaira
Publication Year:2008
ISBN:9780199539871
Pages:362
Language:English
File Size:3.3
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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