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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The hidden moves that make hard problems beautiful.Most math books hand you a thousand problems and a stopwatch. This one hands you eighteen ideas.The Art of Creative Math is not a drill book - it's a guided tour of the eighteen most beautiful moves in competition mathematics: the quiet shifts in seeing that turn a wall of impossible-looking problems into a landscape you can navigate. Double counting. The pigeonhole principle. Invariants. Bijections. Generating functions. Modular arithmetic. Each chapter takes a single idea, shows it cracking open problems that look completely unrelated, and follows the same rhythm - a hook you can attack in one sitting, the idea in plain language, worked "watch this" moments, the classic trap almost everyone falls into, and a showpiece where the idea runs at full power.You'll travel with Curious Carl, a bright, hard-working student certain that math is a matter of grinding harder - who discovers, one chapter at a time, that the real skill is refusing to grind when there's a way to see.Who it's forAmbitious middle- and high-school students (roughly AMC through AIME), their teachers and coaches, and any adult who once loved math and wants to feel that click again. No particular competition is assumed; the goal is understanding that lasts.InsideRead it and you won't just solve harder problems - you'll change what a hard problem looks like. The Art of Creative Math is not a drill book but a guided tour of the eighteen most beautiful ideas in competition mathematics - double counting, the pigeonhole principle, invariants, bijections, generating functions, and more. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Why does a piano have exactly twelve keys? Why does lowering one note turn a bright chord sad? And what does a leap-year calendar have to do with either question?The Mathematical Landscape of Musicis for readers who've always suspected that music and mathematics were never really two subjects - just one idea wearing two costumes.It began with a question from a twelve-year-old violinist that the author, a longtime mathematics teacher, couldn't answer on the spot: "Why twelve keys? We count in tens."Chasing down a real answer opened onto a landscape spanning twenty-five centuries - a rounding error older than Euclid, a single ancient algorithm that shows up in piano tuning, the leap-year calendar, and the sweetest chord you've ever heard, and a trigonometric identity that quietly decides whether a chord sounds happy or sad.Written in a warm, story-driven voice - part memoir, part detective story, part rigorous-but-friendly math book - it's built for curious teenagers and lifelong learners alike, whether their instrument is a piano, a proof, or both.Inside the book: No calculus required - just curiosity, and an ear.DR. HUI QUANis as at home at the piano - lost in Chopin and Rachmaninoff - as at the chalkboard, teaching the numbers and geometry beneath the music.The Mathematical Landscape of Musicis his invitation to hear both at once. Why does a piano have exactly twelve keys, and why does lowering a single note turn a bright chord sad? The Mathematical Landscape of Music follows a mathematics teacher's search for the answers her student's questions deserved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Inversion is the great magic trick of geometry - and this book teaches you to work it.A single rule turns the inside of a circle into its outside, bends straight lines into circles, and collapses crowded, impossible-looking figures into calm, familiar ones. The theorem you could not see was there all along, wearing a disguise. The Art of Inversion shows you how to remove the disguise.This is not a formula sheet with problems attached. It is a discovery-driven course in the geometry of circles, built the way mathematics is actually found: every chapter opens with a problem you cannot yet solve, and the theory is built only once you have felt the need for it. You predict before you calculate, and you earn each theorem instead of being handed it.Written for ambitious students of competition and olympiad mathematics - and for the teachers who coach them - the book carries the reader from the very definition of inversion to the frontier of non-Euclidean geometry, one well-chosen mirror at a time.Inside you will find: Roughly one hundred clean, purpose-built diagrams make every construction visible, and hundreds of Review and Challenge problems - each with a one-line nudge rather than a spoiler - turn reading into doing.Discover inversion not as a trick, but as a way of seeing.The Art of Inversion is a volume in The Art of Creative Math, a series that develops one powerful mathematical idea at a time through intuition, elegant reasoning, and problems worth exploring. Inversion is the great magic trick of geometry - and this book teaches you to work it.Discover inversion not as a trick, but as a way of seeing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The hidden moves that make hard problems beautiful.Most math books hand you a thousand problems and a stopwatch. This one hands you eighteen ideas.The Art of Creative Math is not a drill book - it's a guided tour of the eighteen most beautiful moves in competition mathematics: the quiet shifts in seeing that turn a wall of impossible-looking problems into a landscape you can navigate. Double counting. The pigeonhole principle. Invariants. Bijections. Generating functions. Modular arithmetic. Each chapter takes a single idea, shows it cracking open problems that look completely unrelated, and follows the same rhythm - a hook you can attack in one sitting, the idea in plain language, worked "watch this" moments, the classic trap almost everyone falls into, and a showpiece where the idea runs at full power.You'll travel with Curious Carl, a bright, hard-working student certain that math is a matter of grinding harder - who discovers, one chapter at a time, that the real skill is refusing to grind when there's a way to see.Who it's forAmbitious middle- and high-school students (roughly AMC through AIME), their teachers and coaches, and any adult who once loved math and wants to feel that click again. No particular competition is assumed; the goal is understanding that lasts.InsideRead it and you won't just solve harder problems - you'll change what a hard problem looks like. The Art of Creative Math is not a drill book but a guided tour of the eighteen most beautiful ideas in competition mathematics - double counting, the pigeonhole principle, invariants, bijections, generating functions, and more. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Un martes por la noche, una nina de doce anos que afinaba su violin junto al piano del aula hizo una pregunta de cuatro palabras: Por que tiene doce? Su maestra de matematicas, que creia saber bastante de musica, descubrio que no sabia responder. Este libro es lo que salio de esa noche.El paisaje matematico de la musica es un recorrido, de la mano de una narradora calida y con humor, por los ocho lugares donde los numeros y la musica se tocan: No hace falta saber musica ni haber pasado de la matematica de la secundaria. Cada capitulo gira alrededor de una sola formula, dicha primero en palabras; cada idea llega con un experimento pequeno para hacer esta noche, con un piano, un celular o una liga estirada sobre una caja de carton. Veintiocho diagramas y veintiun vinetas dibujan lo que las palabras explican.Para quien canta en el carro, dejo el piano a los diez anos o simplemente quiere saber por que la musica que ama le pone la piel de gallina. La matematica no hace mas fria a la musica: toma lo que tu oido ya sabia y, por fin, le pone nombre.Hui Quan es doctora en matematicas y dirige un centro de formacion de jovenes matematicos en Austin, Texas, donde entrena a estudiantes de olimpiada. Este es su primer libro sobre musica. Edicion en espanol adaptada al lector latinoamericano. Aqui descubriras por que el piano miente un poquito cada vez que toca una quinta, por que cuatro amigos que tararean Cielito lindo en un estacionamiento pueden sonar mas dulces que un piano de cola. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Fifteen problems. Two hours. No multiple choice.The Mathworks Math Contest asks middle-schoolers to do what a classroom rarely asks: not merely to get the answer, but to show how they got there, in writing, to someone who will read it. In 2025 it drew 962 students from the United States and abroad. The average score was 2.72 out of 15. Fourteen of those 962 scored twelve or better.This book teaches that.375 problems written for the training camp at ACES Learning Center in Austin, Texas, in four parts and twenty-four topic chapters - rates and work, angle chasing, lattice paths, invariants, cryptarithms, modular arithmetic and the rest. Every one is worked through from scratch.Every problem gets three thingsA solution that explains itself - not just the steps, but why you would think of them, and what you would have tried first.A sample written solution, set in handwriting: the short, labeled write-up that actually belongs on an answer sheet, with the answer boxed. Not a paragraph of prose, and not a page of scribble with a number circled at the bottom. This is the part almost no student is taught.A second look, wherever one exists - the shorter route, the cleverer route, or the one that explains why the first route worked.Built as a course, not an answer keyEach chapter opens with the skills that unlock it, stated as tools with their actual formulas rather than as topic headings, and closes by naming its hardest problems and the one idea that cracks each.Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Texas State University Mathworks or Po Leung Kuk. Crack Math Challenges is the training course: 375 problems from the ACES camp, each worked through from scratch, each shown again the way it should look on the answer sheet, and forty-seven of them grouped into sets. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An einem Dienstagabend stellte eine Zwoelfjaehrige, die neben dem alten Klavier des Klassenzimmers ihre Geige stimmte, eine Frage aus vier Woertern: "Warum hat es zwoelf?" Ihr Mathematiklehrer, der einiges ueber Musik zu wissen glaubte, merkte, dass er keine Antwort hatte. Dieses Buch ist das, was aus jenem Abend geworden ist.Die mathematische Landschaft der Musik fuehrt Sie an die acht Orte, an denen sich Zahlen und Musik beruehren: Sie brauchen keine Notenkenntnisse und keine Mathematik ueber die Schulzeit hinaus. Jedes Kapitel dreht sich um eine einzige Formel, die vorher in schlichten Worten gesagt wird; zu jeder Idee gehoert ein kleiner Versuch fuer denselben Abend, mit einem Klavier, einem Handy oder einem Gummiband ueber einer Pappschachtel. Achtundzwanzig Diagramme und einundzwanzig Cartoons zeichnen, was die Woerter erklaeren.Fuer alle, die im Auto mitsingen, mit zehn das Klavierspielen aufgegeben haben oder einfach wissen wollen, warum ihnen die Musik, die sie lieben, eine Gaensehaut macht. Die Mathematik macht die Musik nicht kaelter. Sie nimmt das, was Ihr Ohr laengst wusste, und gibt ihm endlich einen Namen.Dr. Hui Quan hat in Mathematik promoviert und leitet in Austin, Texas, ein Lernzentrum, in dem er junge Mathematiker fuer Olympiaden trainiert. Die deutsche Ausgabe ist eine Adaption, keine woertliche UEbersetzung: Die Toene tragen die deutschen Namen C, D, E, F, G, A, H. Warum hat ein Klavier zwoelf Tasten? Warum klingt Moll traurig? Acht Kapitel ueber die Zahlen hinter der Musik: von der Stimmung bis zur Klangfarbe, von Bach bis Bayes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The hidden moves that make hard problems beautiful.Most math books hand you a thousand problems and a stopwatch. This one hands you eighteen ideas.The Art of Creative Math is not a drill book - it's a guided tour of the eighteen most beautiful moves in competition mathematics: the quiet shifts in seeing that turn a wall of impossible-looking problems into a landscape you can navigate. Double counting. The pigeonhole principle. Invariants. Bijections. Generating functions. Modular arithmetic. Each chapter takes a single idea, shows it cracking open problems that look completely unrelated, and follows the same rhythm - a hook you can attack in one sitting, the idea in plain language, worked "watch this" moments, the classic trap almost everyone falls into, and a showpiece where the idea runs at full power.You'll travel with Curious Carl, a bright, hard-working student certain that math is a matter of grinding harder - who discovers, one chapter at a time, that the real skill is refusing to grind when there's a way to see.Who it's forAmbitious middle- and high-school students (roughly AMC through AIME), their teachers and coaches, and any adult who once loved math and wants to feel that click again. No particular competition is assumed; the goal is understanding that lasts.InsideRead it and you won't just solve harder problems - you'll change what a hard problem looks like. The Art of Creative Math is not a drill book but a guided tour of the eighteen most beautiful ideas in competition mathematics - double counting, the pigeonhole principle, invariants, bijections, generating functions, and more. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The hidden moves that make hard problems beautiful.Most math books hand you a thousand problems and a stopwatch. This one hands you eighteen ideas.The Art of Creative Math is not a drill book - it's a guided tour of the eighteen most beautiful moves in competition mathematics: the quiet shifts in seeing that turn a wall of impossible-looking problems into a landscape you can navigate. Double counting. The pigeonhole principle. Invariants. Bijections. Generating functions. Modular arithmetic. Each chapter takes a single idea, shows it cracking open problems that look completely unrelated, and follows the same rhythm - a hook you can attack in one sitting, the idea in plain language, worked 'watch this' moments, the classic trap almost everyone falls into, and a showpiece where the idea runs at full power.You'll travel with Curious Carl, a bright, hard-working student certain that math is a matter of grinding harder - who discovers, one chapter at a time, that the real skill is refusing to grind when there's a way to see.Who it's forAmbitious middle- and high-school students (roughly AMC through AIME), their teachers and coaches, and any adult who once loved math and wants to feel that click again. No particular competition is assumed; the goal is understanding that lasts.InsideRead it and you won't just solve harder problems - you'll change what a hard problem looks like.…