math summary
November 2, 2013
Mathematics 117
Professor Sansalone
Book Summary A Mathematical Medley
By Winton Laubach
Gleanings from the Globe and Beyond, as stated on the cover page of A Mathematical Medley, takes the readers to a completely different place in their brain. Those who chose to read the book by Winton Laubach are given an opportunity to explore their limits beyond Mathematics and Physics. The book is filled with riddles that are designed to challenge the mind. After reading the book readers may gain a new passion for both Mathematics and Physic, that they never would have had before.
Mathematics is too often labeled as a harsh subject with too much complexity and problems too hard for the mind to break down and solve. Winton Laubach introduced it in a new aspect, by adding riddle and problems step by step he allows readers to enjoy mathematics even though the person might have once had hate for it.
Solving the cow problem, the first test given to Winton Laubach fresh out of teacher’s college just so happened to be a complex calculus problem. He was testing his limits for a parent of one of his very first students. One inch diameter and 100 foot wire attached to a cow? How far can the cow travel being bound to wire? So Winton Laubach was placed trying to figure out how much distance the cow can accomplish before it wound up a stake. Winton came up with an idea of thinking about a,“regular polygon” being used to determine the skills of the cow attached to wire, perimeter, number of sides, length of sides, length wire and lastly the diameter of the stake all needed to be determined. So how do we the readers solve this? Laubach decided to wrap the polygon in wire this being the number of sides, when the wire is unwound its end will be determined as the sequence which readers are familiar to as the radii of our given polygon.
After that first step was completed Winton allowed the polygons sides to increase giving it no limits meaning we are
Mathematics 117
Professor Sansalone
Book Summary A Mathematical Medley
By Winton Laubach
Gleanings from the Globe and Beyond, as stated on the cover page of A Mathematical Medley, takes the readers to a completely different place in their brain. Those who chose to read the book by Winton Laubach are given an opportunity to explore their limits beyond Mathematics and Physics. The book is filled with riddles that are designed to challenge the mind. After reading the book readers may gain a new passion for both Mathematics and Physic, that they never would have had before.
Mathematics is too often labeled as a harsh subject with too much complexity and problems too hard for the mind to break down and solve. Winton Laubach introduced it in a new aspect, by adding riddle and problems step by step he allows readers to enjoy mathematics even though the person might have once had hate for it.
Solving the cow problem, the first test given to Winton Laubach fresh out of teacher’s college just so happened to be a complex calculus problem. He was testing his limits for a parent of one of his very first students. One inch diameter and 100 foot wire attached to a cow? How far can the cow travel being bound to wire? So Winton Laubach was placed trying to figure out how much distance the cow can accomplish before it wound up a stake. Winton came up with an idea of thinking about a,“regular polygon” being used to determine the skills of the cow attached to wire, perimeter, number of sides, length of sides, length wire and lastly the diameter of the stake all needed to be determined. So how do we the readers solve this? Laubach decided to wrap the polygon in wire this being the number of sides, when the wire is unwound its end will be determined as the sequence which readers are familiar to as the radii of our given polygon.
After that first step was completed Winton allowed the polygons sides to increase giving it no limits meaning we are