Mathematical Encounters for the Inquisitive Mind

Hello everyone:

My book titled, Mathematical Encounters for the Inquisitive Mind is due to be released in a few months.

Then, it will be available at www.barnes&noble.com, www.amazon.com both as a paperback and an ebook.

Here are some sample chapters.

CHAPTER 5

From Murder Scene to Building and Transforming Word Problems into Simple Equations

Out of Curiosity: Some Beautiful Number Patterns

Objectives

Introduction

Exploring Patterns with Triangular Numbers

Expressing the nth Triangular Number

Partial Sums of First n Positive Even Numbers Whose First Term is 2

Triangular Numbers Expressed as Partial Sums

Finding the nth term of a sequence out of Curiosity

Exploring Patterns With Lucas Numbers

A Search for Counter Examples

Chapter 10

Mathematics Behind Bars: My Experience with the US Immigration

Chapter 15

A Student's Logic Under Trial: Verifying a Summation Strategy for First n Fibonacci Numbers

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