Product Description: Celebrating a century of geometry and geometry teaching, this volume includes popular articles on Pythagoras, the golden ratio and recreational geometry. Thirty "Desert Island Theorems" from distinguished mathematicians and educators disclose surprising results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Rather than simply a collection of problems, this book can be thought of as both a tool chest of mathematical techniques and an anthology of mathematical verse. The authors have grouped problems so as to illustrate and highlight a number of important techniques and have provided enlightening solutions in all cases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents the career histories of 38 professional women describing how much math each took in high school and college, how she chose her field of study, and how she ended up in her current job. Each woman presents several problems typical of those she had to solve on the job using mathematics.

Product Description: Often questions about tiling space or a polygon lead to questions concerning algebra. For instance, tiling by cubes raises questions about finite abelian groups. Tiling by triangles of equal areas soon involves Sperner's lemma from topology and valuations from algebra...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As a companion to mathematical Cranks, the MAA is happy to offer its readers another Dudley classic., The Trisectors. This book is also about mathematical cranks-angle trisectors. It is impossible to trisect angles with straightedge and compass alone, but many try and think they have succeeded...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)