Download or read book Problem Solving Using the Am gm Inequality written by Yongcheng Chen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Competition Books Series -- The AM-GM inequality is a powerful problem-solving tool. This book shows how you can use the AM-GM Inequality to solve a variety of problems, such as geometry, equations, inequalities, and finding the maximum/minimum value. The book can be used by students preparing for math competitions such as Mathcounts, AMC 8/10/12, and AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination). Each chapter consists of (1) basic skill and knowledge section with examples, (2) exercise problems, and (3) detailed solutions to all problems. 9th book: Problem Solving Using Auxiliary Lines https: //www.amazon.com/dp/1975681754 10th book: https: //www.amazon.com/Problem-Solving-Using-Vietas-Theorem/dp/1542800056

Download or read book Inequalities written by Radmila Bulajich Manfrino and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for the Mathematical Olympiad students who wish to prepare for the study of inequalities, a topic now of frequent use at various levels of mathematical competitions. In this volume we present both classic inequalities and the more useful inequalities for confronting and solving optimization problems. An important part of this book deals with geometric inequalities and this fact makes a big difference with respect to most of the books that deal with this topic in the mathematical olympiad. The book has been organized in four chapters which have each of them a different character. Chapter 1 is dedicated to present basic inequalities. Most of them are numerical inequalities generally lacking any geometric meaning. However, where it is possible to provide a geometric interpretation, we include it as we go along. We emphasize the importance of some of these inequalities, such as the inequality between the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, the rearrangementinequality, the Jensen inequality, the Muirhead theorem, among others. For all these, besides giving the proof, we present several examples that show how to use them in mathematical olympiad problems. We also emphasize how the substitution strategy is used to deduce several inequalities.

Download or read book Adventures in Problem Solving written by S. Shirali and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inequalities written by Zdravko Cvetkovski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is about inequalities which play an important role in mathematical Olympiads. It contains 175 solved problems in the form of exercises and, in addition, 310 solved problems. The book also covers the theoretical background of the most important theorems and techniques required for solving inequalities. It is written for all middle and high-school students, as well as for graduate and undergraduate students. School teachers and trainers for mathematical competitions will also gain benefit from this book.

Download or read book Problem Solving Strategies written by Arthur Engel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of competition problems from over twenty major national and international mathematical competitions for high school students. Written for trainers and participants of contests of all levels up to the highest level, this will appeal to high school teachers conducting a mathematics club who need a range of simple to complex problems and to those instructors wishing to pose a "problem of the week", thus bringing a creative atmosphere into the classrooms. Equally, this is a must-have for individuals interested in solving difficult and challenging problems. Each chapter starts with typical examples illustrating the central concepts and is followed by a number of carefully selected problems and their solutions. Most of the solutions are complete, but some merely point to the road leading to the final solution. In addition to being a valuable resource of mathematical problems and solution strategies, this is the most complete training book on the market.

Download or read book Inequalities written by B.J. Venkatachala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses about the basic topics on inequalities and their applications. These include the arithmetic mean–geometric mean inequality, Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, Chebyshev inequality, rearrangement inequality, convex and concave functions and Muirhead's theorem. The book contains over 400 problems with their solutions. A chapter on geometric inequalities is a special feature of this book. Most of these problems are from International Mathematical Olympiads and from many national mathematical Olympiads. The book is intended to help students who are preparing for various mathematical competitions. It is also a good source book for graduate students who are consolidating their knowledge of inequalities and their applications.

Download or read book Problem Solving Using the Rearrangement Inequality written by Yongcheng Chen and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Competition Books Series - The rearrangement inequality is a powerful problem-solving tool. For example, many fundamental inequalities, such as the AM-GM inequality, the Cauchy inequality, and the Chebyshev's inequality, can be generated from the rearrangement inequality.This book shows how you can use the rearrangement inequality to solve a variety of problems.The book can be used by students preparing for math competitions such as Mathcounts, AMC 10/12, AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination), and USAJMO/USAMO.

Download or read book Street Fighting Mathematics written by Sanjoy Mahajan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap even though it may land us on a correct result. Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT for students ranging from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. They benefited from an approach that avoided rigor and taught them how to use mathematics to solve real problems. Street-Fighting Mathematics will appear in print and online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike license.

Download or read book The Cauchy Schwarz Master Class written by J. Michael Steele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively, problem-oriented text, first published in 2004, is designed to coach readers toward mastery of the most fundamental mathematical inequalities. With the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality as the initial guide, the reader is led through a sequence of fascinating problems whose solutions are presented as they might have been discovered - either by one of history's famous mathematicians or by the reader. The problems emphasize beauty and surprise, but along the way readers will find systematic coverage of the geometry of squares, convexity, the ladder of power means, majorization, Schur convexity, exponential sums, and the inequalities of Hölder, Hilbert, and Hardy. The text is accessible to anyone who knows calculus and who cares about solving problems. It is well suited to self-study, directed study, or as a supplement to courses in analysis, probability, and combinatorics.

Download or read book Basics of Olympiad Inequalities written by Samin Riasat and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade ago I published some notes on inequalities on the WWW with the same title as this book aimed for mathematical olympiad preparation. I do not have specific data on how widespread it became. However, search results on the WWW, publication data on ResearchGate and occasional emails from teachers and students gave me evidence that it had indeed spread worldwide. While I was greatly overwhelmed and humbled that so many people across the world read my notes and presumably found them useful, I also felt it necessary to write a more detailed and improved version. This culminated in the publication of this book. While the main topics from the original notes have not changed, this book does contain more details and explanations. I therefore hope that it will be even more useful to everyone.

Download or read book Problem Solving Using Auxiliary Lines written by Yongcheng Chen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Competition Books Series (9th book) This book introduces some commonly used skills to draw auxiliary lines in plane geometry problem solving. The book can be used by students preparing for math competitions such as Mathcounts, AMC 10/12/AIME.

Download or read book 116 Algebraic Inequalities from the AwesomeMath Year Round Program written by Titu Andreescu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book would certainly help Olympiad students who wish to prepare for the study of inequalities, a topic now of frequent use at various competitive levels. The inequalities from each section are ordered increasingly by the number of variables: one, two, three, four, and multi-variables. Each problem has at least one complete solution and many problems have multiple solutions, useful in developing the necessary array of mathematical machinery for competitions.

Download or read book Proofs Without Words written by Roger B. Nelsen and published by MAA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Putnam and Beyond written by Răzvan Gelca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on a journey through the world of college mathematics, focusing on some of the most important concepts and results in the theories of polynomials, linear algebra, real analysis, differential equations, coordinate geometry, trigonometry, elementary number theory, combinatorics, and probability. Preliminary material provides an overview of common methods of proof: argument by contradiction, mathematical induction, pigeonhole principle, ordered sets, and invariants. Each chapter systematically presents a single subject within which problems are clustered in each section according to the specific topic. The exposition is driven by nearly 1300 problems and examples chosen from numerous sources from around the world; many original contributions come from the authors. The source, author, and historical background are cited whenever possible. Complete solutions to all problems are given at the end of the book. This second edition includes new sections on quad ratic polynomials, curves in the plane, quadratic fields, combinatorics of numbers, and graph theory, and added problems or theoretical expansion of sections on polynomials, matrices, abstract algebra, limits of sequences and functions, derivatives and their applications, Stokes' theorem, analytical geometry, combinatorial geometry, and counting strategies. Using the W.L. Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduates as an inspiring symbol to build an appropriate math background for graduate studies in pure or applied mathematics, the reader is eased into transitioning from problem-solving at the high school level to the university and beyond, that is, to mathematical research. This work may be used as a study guide for the Putnam exam, as a text for many different problem-solving courses, and as a source of problems for standard courses in undergraduate mathematics. Putnam and Beyond is organized for independent study by undergraduate and gradu ate students, as well as teachers and researchers in the physical sciences who wish to expand their mathematical horizons.

Download or read book Challenge and Thrill of Pre College Mathematics written by V Krishnamurthy and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2007 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenge And Thrill Of Pre-College Mathematics Is An Unusual Enrichment Text For Mathematics Of Classes 9, 10, 11 And 12 For Use By Students And Teachers Who Are Not Content With The Average Level That Routine Text Dare Not Transcend In View Of Their Mass Clientele. It Covers Geometry, Algebra And Trigonometry Plus A Little Of Combinatorics. Number Theory And Probability. It Is Written Specifically For The Top Half Whose Ambition Is To Excel And Rise To The Peak Without Finding The Journey A Forced Uphill Task.The Undercurrent Of The Book Is To Motivate The Student To Enjoy The Pleasures Of A Mathematical Pursuit And Of Problem Solving. More Than 300 Worked Out Problems (Several Of Them From National And International Olympiads) Share With The Student The Strategy, The Excitement, Motivation, Modeling, Manipulation, Abstraction, Notation And Ingenuity That Together Make Mathematics. This Would Be The Starting Point For The Student, Of A Life-Long Friendship With A Sound Mathematical Way Of Thinking.There Are Two Reasons Why The Book Should Be In The Hands Of Every School Or College Student, (Whether He Belongs To A Mathematics Stream Or Not) One, If He Likes Mathematics And, Two, If He Does Not Like Mathematics- The Former, So That The Cramped Robot-Type Treatment In The Classroom Does Not Make Him Into The Latter; And The Latter So That By The Time He Is Halfway Through The Book, He Will Invite Himself Into The Former.

Download or read book Problem Solving Using Vieta s Theorem written by Yongcheng Chen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tenth book of Math Contest Books Series. The book introduces a powerful problem solving technique - Vieta's Theorem. The book can be used by students preparing for math competitions such as Mathcounts, AMC 10/12/AIME. Second book of Math Contest Books Series: https: //www.amazon.com/Balls-Boxes-Yongcheng-Chen/dp/1540390578 Third book of Math Contest Books Series: https: //www.amazon.com/dp/1540856410

Download or read book Advanced Olympiad Inequalities Algebraic Geometric Olympiad Inequalities written by Alijadallah Belabess and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a unique collection of new inequalities that were specifically imagined by the author to challenge the boundaries of curiosity and imagination. The inequalities are extremely beautiful and sharp, and the book covers various topics from 3 and 4 variables inequalities, symmetric and non-symmetric inequalities to geometric inequalities. Many of the exercises are presented with detailed solutions covering a variety of must-know old and new techniques in tackling Olympiad problems. The book contains also a variety of unsolved exercises which were left to the reader as additional challenges. Most importantly, the book deals with the daunting topic of asymmetric inequalities where most classical approaches fail. The book has been organised in five chapters. In the first one, we presented a collection of classical algebraic and geometric inequalities such as Cauchy-Schwarz, Cheybeshev's, Newton's, Bernoulli's, Euler's, Walker's inequalities among others. These are the classical inequalities that any student should master if he is aiming for a medal at Mathematical Olympiad competitions. The second and third chapters deal respectively with 3 and 4 variables inequalities covering both symmetric and asymmetric inequalities. The fourth chapter is about Geometric inequalities involving triangle sides, medians, altitudes, internal bisectors, areas, perimeters, orthic triangles, angles, circumradius, inradius...The last chapter contains detailed solutions to the proposed problems with more than one solution for some of the inequalities.