[math-fun] Free "Readers's Digest" version of experimental math books
As some of you know, Jon Borwein, myself and (for vol 2) Roland Girgensohn have completed a two-volume work on computational/experimental mathematics. Vol 1, "Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning on the 21st Century", should be available (eg, from Amazon) in 2-3 weeks. Vol 2, "Experimentation in Mathematics: The Computational Road to Discovery", should be availble in 2 months or so. In the meantime, we are pleased to announce that a 75-page "Reader Digest" condensation of these two books is now available FREE at the website http://www.expmath.info David H Bailey david@dhbailey.com P.S. I believe I mentioned this on Math-Fun a month or so ago, but it was during the "SoBig" spam blizzard, so some of you might have missed it.
Amazon has a new searching method that allows for searches inside of various books. It does not search through ALL books, of course. As an example, I tried "look and say sequence" Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters by James J. Tattersall (Author) (Paperback - December 1999) Excerpt from page 23: ". . . to the previous term and reversing the digits. Properties of look and say sequences were developed by John H. Conway at Cambridge University. For . . ." And then I tried "heptominoes" The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic by Richard A. Epstein (Editor) (Paperback - March 1995) Excerpt from page 367: ". . . applica- tions. There are, for example, 35 hexominoes and 108 heptominoes, one of 1 1 2 3 t Tyrne Products, . . ." The A to Z of Mathematics: A Basic Guide by Thomas H. Sidebotham (Author) (Paperback) Excerpt from page 339: ". . . of seven squares joined together. There are 108 types of heptominoes, including one with a "hole," shown in figure e. (e) . . An interesting tool. --Ed Pegg Jr.
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