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  title info:
    title: Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics
  name:
    name part: Soifer, Alexander.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    edition: Second.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXVI, 264 p. 332 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The etudes presented here are not simply those of Czerny, but are better compared to the etudes of Chopin, not only technically demanding and addressed to a variety of specific skills, but at the same time possessing an exceptional beauty that characterizes the best of art... Keep this book at hand as you plan your next problem solving seminar. —Don Chakerian THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY Alexander Soifer’s Geometrical Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics is concerned with beautiful mathematics, and it will likely occupy a special and permanent place in the mathematical literature, challenging and inspiring both novice and expert readers with surprising and exquisite problems and theorems… He conveys the joy of discovery as well as anyone, and he has chosen a topic that will stand the test of time. —Cecil Rousseau MEMPHIS STATE UNIVERSITY Each time I looked at Geometrical Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics I found something that was new and surprising to me, even after more than fifty years working in combinatorial geometry. The new edition has been expanded (and updated where needed), by several new delightful chapters. The careful and gradual introduction of topics and results is equally inviting for beginners and for jaded specialists. I hope that the appeal of the book will attract many young mathematicians to the visually attractive problems that keep you guessing how the questions will be answered in the end. —Branko Grünbaum UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE All of Alexander Soifer’s books can be viewed as excellent and artful entrees to mathematics in the MAPS mode... Different people will have different preferences among them, but here is something that Geometric Etudes does better than the others: after bringing the reader into a topic by posing interesting problems, starting from a completely elementary level, it then goes deep. The depth achieved is most spectacular in Chapter 4, on Combinatorial Geometry, which could be used as part or all of a grad…
  table of contents: ORIGINAL ETUDES -- Tiling a Checker Rectangle -- Proofs of Existence -- A Word About Graphs -- Ideas of Combinatorial Geometry -- NEW LANDSCAPE, OR THE VIEW 18 YEARS LATER -- Mitya Karabash and a Tiling Conjecture -- Norton Starr’s 3-Dimensional Tromino Tiling -- Large Progress in Small Ramsey Numbers -- The Borsuk Problem Conquered -- Etude on the Chromatic Number of the Plane.
  note: by Alexander Soifer.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Algebra
  subject:
    topic: Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Combinatorics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Combinatorics
  subject:
    topic: Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Algebra
  classification: QA164-167.2
  classification: 511.6
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