Math Girls Talk About Integers - Hardcover

Yuki, Hiroshi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1939326249 ISBN 13: 9781939326249

Publisher: Bento Books, Inc., 2014

Synopsis

Math Girls Talk About Integers introduces students to a variety of fun and informative topics in discrete math, including curious features of the prime numbers, tricks for checking for multiples of 3 and 9 (and why those tricks work!), using division remainders to solve some unusual problems, and an in-depth look at proof by mathematical induction. These topics are introduced through conversations between the characters from Math Girls, offering a fun way to learn this serious content. Each chapter comes with review problems and answers, and an appendix gives more challenging, open-ended problems for readers wanting to push the limits of their understanding.

About this title

About the Author

Bestselling Japanese author Hiroshi Yuki has written over thirty books on mathematics, programming, and cryptography, including the immensely popular Math Girls, which has been translated into English, Chinese, and Korean. He lives in Tokyo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bento Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939326249
• ISBN 13: 9781939326249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Reeder Joseph