Laboratories in Mathematical Experimentation: A Bridge to Higher Mathematics

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Published, 1997, by Springer-Verlag, New York, now Key College Publishing
ISBN 0-387-94922-4

 Table of Contents

 Preface vii

 Introduction xv
 1. Interation of Linear Functions .... p.1
 2. Cyclic Difference Sets .... p.16
 3. The Euclidean Algorithm .... p.30
 4. Prime Numbers .... p.54
 5. The Coloring of Graphs .... p.79
 6. Randomized Response Surveys .... p.94
 7. Polyhedra .... p.119
 8. The p-adic Numbers .... p.123
 9. Parametric Curve Representation .... p. 142
 10. Numerical Integration .... p. 159
 11. Sequences and Series .... p. 181
 12. Experiments in Periodicity .... p. 203
 13. Iteration to Solve Equations .... p. 219
 14. Iteration of Quadratic Functions .... p. 226
 15. Iterated Linear Maps in the Plane .... p. 243
 16. Euclidean Algorithm for Complex Integers .... p. 259

 index

 Authors. The following authors are faculty members in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 01075:

George Cobb
Giuliana Davidoff
Alan Durfee
Janice Gifford
Donal O'Shea
Mark Peterson
Harriet Pollatsek
Margaret Robinson
Lester Senechal
Robert Weaver

 Also contributing
 
J. William Bruce
(University of Liverpool)
 

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