Mathematics Masterclasses

Stretching the Imagination
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-851493-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

This is a valuable resource of non-syllabus material for mathematics and science teachers at secondary school level, teenagers and parents. It contains written versions of Royal Institution masterclasses on a wide selection of topics in pure and applied mathematics, and very little knowledge is assumed. Topics include chaos theory, meteorology, storage limitations of computers, population growth and decay, and the mechanics of dinosaurs. This book shows that mathematics can be fun!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sewell, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- A Little Bit of Chaos

- Nightmare on Large Number Street

- Games of Chance

- Weather

- Square Roots and Seventeengons

- Discrete Mathematics and Its Application to Ecology

- Channels, Pipes and Rivers

- Balloons and Bubbles

- Dynamics of Dinosaurs

- Pythagorean Number Triples

- Plato, Polyhedra and Weather Forecasting

- Water Waves