Happy Math: Fun Math Handbook for Primary School Students: Fun Math Handbook for Primary School Students

Author: Tan Xiangbo
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Tan Xiangbo is a professor at Shanghai Second Military Medical University. He is proficient in five languages: English, Japanese, German, French, and Russian. With a broad understanding of literature and history from ancient and modern times, he has dedicated his life to mathematical research. He is an authoritative scholar in operations research and recreational mathematics, renowned as a knowledgeable and versatile scholar and science popularizer. With a rigorous scientific attitude, at the beginning of the new century, he researched and proposed the original "backtracking algorithm" based on group theory algorithms, which attracted widespread attention from the academic community. Recreational math problems derive numerous issues from both the aspects of numbers and shapes. If all of them were compiled, it would be an enormous project and difficult for readers to browse through entirely. In view of this, this book selects over 200 representative problems, categorized into 16 types based on their nature and problem-solving approaches. It preserves the representative classic problems from around the world, which are part of our mathematical cultural heritage, while also creatively compiling new recreational problems that meet the demands of the times and readers' acceptance. This book achieves both inheritance and development. From the title to the content, the book is lively, easy to understand, and visually engaging, making it both instructive and fascinating. It includes hands-on experiments, conjecture and verification, as well as logical reasoning exercises, helping readers broaden their mathematical horizons, develop intelligence, enhance analytical skills, and foster innovative thinking. It is beneficial for improving the mathematical literacy of young people and serves as an excellent guide and companion for students, teachers, and parents.