Where will the journey of exploration take you? These excerpts will give you a sense of the range of topics appearing in The Mathematical Explorer. Some of these topics date back to the ancient Greeks, and some touch on the newest fields within mathematics. Every section comes with a historical introduction, biographies of relevant mathematicians, questions and answers, notes, and references for further exploration.
The Mysterious and Beautiful Sequence for 2, 3, 5...
The Feigenbaum Discovery
The Never-Ending Quest for More Digits
Can Computers Prove Theorems?
Playing with Periodicity
Modular Arithmetic, Symmetries, and Group Theory
The Bizarre World of Wheels
Turtle Geometry, Fractals, and Space-Filling Curves
The Constancy of Change
The Quest for a Better Number System
The Mathematics behind Disguising Secrets
Diophantine Equations and the Most Famous Problem in Mathematics
Puzzles Old and New
Where Mathematics and Art Cross
The Most Important Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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