Mathematical Vistas

The goal of "Mathematical Vistas" is to stimulate the interest of bright people in mathematics. The book consists of nine related mathematical essays which will intrigue and inform the curious reader. This book is a sequel to the authors's popular book "Mathematical Reflections" and can be read independently.

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Inhalt
1 Paradoxes in Mathematics.- 2 Not the Last of Fermat.- 3 Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers: Their Connections and Divisibility Properties.- 4 Paper-Folding, Polyhedra-Building, and Number Theory.- 5 Are Four Colors Really Enough?.- 6 From Binomial to Trinomial Coefficients and Beyond.- 7 Catalan Numbers.- 8 Symmetry.- 9 Parties.- Selected Answers to Breaks.