Mathemagical Cruise

Liong-shin Hahn

  • PublishedAugust, 2023
  • Binding平裝 / 23*17 / 248pages / 單色（黑） / 英文
  • Publisher國立臺灣大學出版中心
  • SeriesEducation－Textbooks
  • ISBN978-986-350-754-3
  • GPN1011200861
  • Price NT$800
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Mathemagical Cruise is not a mere collection of fun problems with clever solutions. It offers shining examples of how to approach problem solving.

Each chapter is independent and can be read in any order by everyone with a basic background in high school mathematics. Some highlights of the excursion are:

● Slick Solutions of Double Sequence, Klarner’s Puzzle, Cube Tour, etc.
● Easy Proofs of Bolyai-Gerwin Theorem, Problem by P. Erdös and more
● New Year Puzzles (Especially, Year 2021 & 2022)
● Twelve Points on the Nine-Point Circle
● What's a Point in a Square?
● Five Circles through a 5x6 Grid
● Generalization of Ceva's Theorem
● Easy Approach to Coaxal Circles
● Inversion and its Applications
● Lattice Integer Triangles
● Isbell's Problem
● Sequence of Theorems of Simson & Cantor
● Miscellaneous Problems with Solutions

By cruising through these treasure islands, the reader will traverse mathematical boundaries. Be adventurous and inspired to explore the seas beyond the horizon.

Liong-shin Hahn was born in Tainan, Taiwan. After graduating from the Tainan First Middle School and the National Taiwan University, he attended Stanford University and obtained his Ph.D. under Professor Karel deLeeuw. He authored Complex Numbers and Geometry (Mathematical Association of America, 1994), New Mexico Mathematics Contest Problem Book (University of New Mexico Press, 2005),
Honsberger Revisited (National Taiwan University Press, 2012), Mathemagical Buffet (National Taiwan University Press, 2013), and co-authored with Bernard Epstein Classical Complex Analysis (Jones and Bartlett, 1996). He was awarded the Citation for Public Service from the American Mathematical Society in 1998. His number one hobby is creating/solving mathematical puzzles.

Preface
1 Puzzles
　1.1 Parity
　1.2 Double Sequences
　1.3 15-Puzzle
　1.4 Klarner’s Puzzle
　1.5 A Cube Tour
　1.6 Safe Cracking
　1.7 Tilings
　1.8 A ProblemonWeighted Trees
2 The Bolyai-Gerwin Theorem
　2.1 Baby Pythagoras
　2.2 A Triangular Carpet
　2.3 The Bolyai-Gerwin Theorem
3 New Year Puzzles
　3.1 New Year Puzzle 2014
　3.2 New Year Puzzle 2015
　3.3 Heron’s Formula Revisited
　3.4 New Year Puzzle 2016
　3.5 New Year Puzzle 2017
　3.6 New Year Puzzle 2018
　3.7 New Year Puzzle 2019
　3.8 New Year Puzzle 2020
　3.9 New Year Puzzle 2021
　3.10 New Year Puzzle 2022
　3.11 New Year Puzzle 2023
　3.12 New Year Puzzle 2024
　3.13 New Year Puzzle 2025
4 In Remembrance of Professor Ross Honsberger
　4.1 The Bulging Semicircle
　4.2 The Last Digits of 79999
　4.3 A Diophantine Equation
　4.4 Sumof the Digits
　4.5 Gaps between Consecutive Primes
　4.6 Triangle Numbers That Are Perfect Squares
　4.7 A Problemby Erdӧs
5 Triangles
　5.1 Medians
　5.2 Orthocenter and Circumcenter
　5.3 Incenter and Excenters
6 From the Desks of My Friends
　6.1 FromDean Ballard
　6.1.1 What’s a Point in a Square?
　6.1.2 Wythoff’s Game
　6.1.3 The Game of Nim
　6.2 From Tien-Sheng Hsu
7 How Many Interior Right Angles Can a Polygon Have?
8 Ceva and Menelaus Revisited
9 Circles
　9.1 Preliminaries
　9.2 Radical Axes
　9.3 Coaxal Circles
　9.4 Inversion
　9.5 Theorems of Ptolemy, Steiner and Poncelet
　9.6 An Old Japanese Theorem
　9.7 With Coordinates
10 Lattice Points
　10.1 The Schinzel Theorem
　10.2 Lattice Integer Triangles
　10.3 The Isbell Problem
11 On the Theorems of Simson and of Cantor
Appendix A Problems
Appendix B Solutions and Hints

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