You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein : Adventures And Misadventures Of Young Mathematicians.
This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to "undesirable" applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2005
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to "undesirable" applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion of solutions to the Year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad, with emphasis on the comparison of the olympiad problems to those given at the Moscow University entrance examinations. The second part of the book provides a historical background of a unique phenomenon in mathematics, which flouri. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789812701169 9812701168 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
