Mathematics Masterclasses: Stretching the Imagination

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Large octavo in glossy blue and yellow boards; xvii, 233 p.: ill., bib., notes; 24 cm A legitimately deaccessioned ex-library copy with very minimal labeling (never circulated) ; else Near Fine. Very bright, clean and crisp. Hardcover. ISBN: 0198514948

Contents: Little bit of chaos /; by Chris Bills and Liz Bills --; Nightmare on Large Number Street /; by Bill Dalton --; Games of chance /; by David Harries --; Weather /; by Brian Hoskins --; Square roots and seventeengons /; by Frances Kirwan --; Discrete mathematics and its application to ecology /; by Philip Maini --; Channels, pipes and rivers /; by David Needham --; Balloons and bubbles;; Dynamics of dinosaurs /; by Michael Sewell --; Pythagorean number triples /; by David Stirling --; Plato, polyhedra and weather forecasting /; by Andy White --; Water waves /; by Winifred Wood. Mathematics. Wiskunde.