Five-Minute Mathematics

by Ehrhard Behrends

How much math can you cover in five minutes? Quite a bit, if you have a good guide. In this collection of one hundred short essays, Ehrhard Behrends offers a tour through contemporary and everyday mathematics. The topics range from pure mathematics to applications of mathematics to observations about the mathematics that surrounds us in daily life. Here, we read about the parable of grains of rice on a chessboard, the mathematics of the lottery, music...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821843486
• ISBN13: 9780821843482
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society(RI)
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"