Mathematical Olympiad Challenges
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Author(s): T. Andreescu and R. Gelca
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 9780817645281
Format: softback
283pp
Price: £27.99
Review Date: 03 February 2010
Review: Mathematical Olympiads are often held for High School Students. This updated book of problems has been assembled by well-known coaches and professors of the U.S. Mathematical Olympiad Team. A good Olympiad problem should capture in miniature the process of creating mathematics: immersion in the situation; examination of the approaches; and the pursuit of various paths to solution. Here there are hundreds of challenging problems in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, combinatorics and number theory, taken from numerous mathematical competition and journals. The problems are clustered into topics and solutions are provided at the end of the book.