S.M.A.R.T. Circle Minicourses

Provides first-hand information on the history of the first Mathematical Circle-Project in North America
Contains many mathematical problems, puzzles and games as well as their solutions
Includes material based on junior high school student work, which was originally published in scientific and education journals
The author has received numerous teaching awards

Autorentext
Andy Liu is an established author with eleven books to his credit. He is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has won numerous international awards in Mathematics teaching and outreach, as have several of his former students. He was the leader of the Canadian team to the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2000 (South Korea) and in 2003 (Japan), acts as Vice President of the Tournament of Towns and ran the S.M.A.R.T. Circle for over 30 years.

Inhalt
Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Table of Contents.- Part I. Geometric Topics.- Chapter 1. Area and Dissection.- Section 1. Qualitative and Quantitative Treatments of Area.- Section 2. The Bolyai-Gerwin Theorem and Pythagoras' Theorem.- Section 3. Dissection Problems.- Chapter 2. Projective Geometry.- Section 1. Synthetic Approach.- Section 2. Metric Approach.- Section 3. Analytic Approach.- Chapter 3. Conic Sections.- Section 1. Loci.- Section 2. The Parabola.- Section 3. Ellipses and Hyperbolas.- Chapter 4. Inversive Geometry.- Section 1. Inversion.- Section 2. Applications to Euclidean Geometry.- Section 3. Mohr-Mascheroni Constructions.- Chapter 5. Convexity.- Section 1. Figures.- Section 2. Convex Figures.- Section 3. Figures of Constant Width.- Part II. Other Topics.- Chapter 6. Balancing Problems.- Section 1. Identifying Fake Coins.- Section 2. Other Problems.- Section 3. Other Balances.- Chapter 7. Graph Theory.- Section 1. Basic Concepts.- Section 2. Trees.- Section 3. Directed Graphs.- Chapter 8. Beanstalks.- Section 1. Red and Blue Beanstalks.- Section 2. Infinite Beanstalks.- Section 3. Beansprouts.- Chapter 9. Inequalities.- Section 1. The Rearrangement Inequality.- Section 2. The Majorization Inequality.- Section 3. Trigonometric Inequalities.- Chapter 10. Polynomial Equations.- Section 1. Complex Numbers.- Section 2. Cubic Equations.- Section 3. Quartic Equations.