Professor Higgins's Problem Collection. (Record no. 124758)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780191071966 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780198755470 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)975487040 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA43.H544 2017 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 510.76 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Higgins, Peter M. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Professor Higgins's Problem Collection. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Oxford : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Oxford University Press, Incorporated, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2017. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (135 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Number -- Introduction -- Problem 1: What values may primes take? -- Problem 2: Hidden binary -- Problem 3: How should we write fractions? -- Problem 4: Labelling a cube -- Problem 5: Map numbering problem -- Problem 6: Counting the pennies -- Problem 7: Counting solutions -- Problem 8: Cracking codes -- Problem 9: Logic puzzles -- Problem 10: Pigeonhole tricks -- Number notes -- Comments on number problems -- 2 Algebra -- Introduction -- Problem 11: Trading equations -- Problem 12: Frog and toad -- Problem 13: Geometric series questions -- Problem 14: Summing powers of integers -- Problem 15: Roots of equations -- Problem 16: Special series -- Problem 17: Exact values of trigonometric functions -- Problem 18: Cosine questions -- Problem 19: How many terms to get close? -- Problem 20: Functional equations -- Algebra notes -- Comments on algebra problems -- 3 Geometry -- Introduction -- Problem 21: Goat grazing problems -- Problem 22: Compasses and straight edge -- Problem 23: Tiny changes mean a lot? Or not? -- Problem 24: Golden diagonal -- Problem 25: Newton's ladder problem -- Problem 26: How long is a fan belt? -- Problem 27: A fifth century trick -- Problem 28: At a tangent -- Problem 29: Low lights -- Problem 30: Rugby place kicking problem -- Geometry notes -- Comments on geometry problems -- 4 Chance and combinations -- Introduction -- Problem 31: Tennis tournaments -- Problem 32: Tumbling dice and a tricky toss -- Problem 33: Tactile random walks -- Problem 34: More amblings -- Problem 35: One in a million? -- Problem 36: Loyalty versus Switch -- Problem 37: Think it's going to rain today? -- Problem 38: Persistence of recessive genes -- Problem 39: Counting mappings -- Problem 40: Area under the bell curve -- Chance and combinations notes -- Comments on chance and combinations problems -- 5 Movement. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- Problem 41: Cycling questions -- Problem 42: On the run -- Problem 43: Sam Loyd's ferry boat problem -- Problem 44: Cylinder problems -- Problem 45: Catching The Goblin -- Problem 46: Flag in the wind -- Problem 47: Planetary motion -- Problem 48: Elastic collision -- Problem 49: Slip sliding away? -- Problem 50: Fermat's Principle and Snell's Law of Refraction -- Movement notes -- Comments on movement problems. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This book serves up a variety of problems and shows how mathematics answers them. Topics range from cracking codes to the persistence of recessive genes. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc. |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Higgins, Peter M. |
| Title | Professor Higgins's Problem Collection |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2017 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780198755470 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4828922">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4828922</a> |
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