Essays on Numbers and Figures

Download or read book Essays on Numbers and Figures written by Viktor Vasilʹevich Prasolov and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the English translation of the book originally published in Russian. It contains 20 essays, each dealing with a separate mathematical topic. The topics range from brilliant mathematical statements with interesting proofs, to simple and effective methods of problem-solving, to interesting properties of polynomials, to exceptional points of the triangle. Many of the topics have a long and interesting history. The author has lectured on them to students worldwide.The essays are independent of one another for the most part, and each presents a vivid mathematical result that led to current research in number theory, geometry, polynomial algebra, or topology.