Books written by Edward J. Barbeau

  • Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges

    Alice and Bob play a fair game repeatedly for one nickel each game . If originally Alice has a nickels and Bob has b nickels , what is Alice's chance of winning all of Bob's money , assuming the play goes on until one person has lost ...

  • More Fallacies, Flaws & Flimflam

    The Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine, edited by Gerald L. Alexanderson with the assistance of ... A Miscellany, edited by Underwood Dudley I Want to Be a Mathematician, by Paul R. Halmos Journey into Geometries, ...

  • Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges

    The Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine, edited by Gerald L. Alexanderson with the assistance of Peter Ross How Euler Did It, by C. Edward Sandifer Is Mathematics Inevitable? A Miscellany, edited by Underwood Dudley I ...

  • Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam

    Polyominoes, by George Martin The Search for E. T. Bell, also known as John Taine, by Constance Reid Shaping Space, ... by Michael Stueben with Diane Sandford The Words of Mathematics, by Steven Schwartzman MAA Service Center P. O. Box ...

  • Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom: The 16th ICMI Study

    The book is then put together in collaboration, mainly using electronic communication. The entire process typically takes about six years.

  • Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom: The 16th ICMI Study

    We examine how challenging mathematics can become the essence of mathematics classrooms, how challenging mathematics ... for the everyday classroom and how classroom artifacts and practices can be designed for mathematical challenges.

  • Pell’s Equation

    There are also several explorations that encourage the reader to embark on their own research. Some of these are numerical and often require the use of a calculator or computer.