Collection Short Excursions Geometry, probability, games and puzzles, one idea at a time Vamshi Jandhyala
Short Excursions
Geometry, probability, games and puzzles, one idea at a time
- Chapters
- 20
- Revised
Expository notes, solved puzzles and small computations that do not belong to a longer book, from inversion and the Apollonian gasket to random walks, logic-puzzle solvers and orbits drawn to scale. Each piece stands alone and most are also set as an A4 PDF.
Contents
- Geometry
- 1Inversion in Geometry
- 2The Apollonian Gasket
- 3Islamic Geometric Patterns
- 4Cozy Circles in Regular Polygons
- Probability
- 5A Faulty Traffic Signal
- 6Expected Distance of a Random Point from the Centre of a Regular Polygon
- 7Appeasing the Cherry Blossom Horde
- 8Charlotte's New Web
- 9Running Total of a Die
- 10Knights on a Chessboard
- Combinatorics and games
- 11Subsets of {1,…,n} with Exactly One Pair of Consecutive Integers
- 12One Hat Comes Home
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