Mathematical adventures for students and amateurs / edited by David F. Hayes and Tatiana Shubin ; with the assistance of Gerald L. Alexanderson and Peter Ross.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General. Prime numbers and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence / Carl Pomerance -- Space shuttle geometry / Helen Moore -- Mathematicians versus the silicon age: who wins? / Sheldon Axler -- Breaking driver's license codes / Joseph A. Gallian -- Jumping frogs and powers of two / Paul Zeitz -- Number theory. Triangles, squares, oranges, and cuboids / Peter Stevenhagen -- When is an integer the product of two and of three consecutive integers? / Edward F. Schaefer -- Right triangles and elliptic curves / Karl Rubin -- Combinatorics and probability. Proofs that really count: the magic of Fibonacci numbers and more / Arthur T. Benjamin & Jennifer J. Quinn -- Juggling patterns, passing, and posets / Joe Buhler & Ron Graham -- Platonic divisions of space / Jean Pederson -- Probability by surprise / Susan Holmes -- Geometry and topology. The rule of false position / Don Chakerian -- Geometric puzzles and constructions: six classical geometric theorems / Zvezdelina Stankova -- Cusps / Dmitry Fuchs -- Tringles and curvature / Richard Scott -- Applications and history. Archimedes and his floating paraboloids / Sherman Stein -- Mathematical mapping from Mercator to the Millennium / Robert Osserman -- Alice in Numberland: an informal dramatic presentation in 8 fits / Robin Wilson.