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Help in finding a good book for a math enthusiastic high school sohomore

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Kung Lau

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Yesterday, my son bought a book with his own money. That alone is noteworthy, but the book is called "Math Proofs Demystified."

Apparently he loves the book and wants more of the same.


What can any of you guys recommend along these lines?

Oh, and BTW, he wants to study EE at GA Tech.


 
If you can find it, get him a copy of "Asimov on Numbers" by Isaac Asimov. Fantastic book. It's rather a collection of articles and such that he wrote on many different topics in math. He includes how numbers and counting developed; shows how Hitler's name translates into 666, ponders numbers greater than infinity, demonstrates how large a googolplex is, and much more... It's one of my favorites.

 
The Art of Problem Solving I and II is the norm for enthusiastic math students.

If you want to get philosophical, "Godel, Esher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter won the Pulitzer. Note how GEB: EGB are permutations of each other. There is absolutely no limit on the cleverness of this text. The cleverness is recursive.

I also enjoyed The Book of Numbers by John Conway.
 
I saw an amazing book in chapters yesterday: Combinatorical Optimization. It's my entire degree compressed into one book!
 
Ah!! A guy wrote a book explaining a new way of doing trig. Virtually, he eliminated all the sine, cosines, and tangents, ect and replaced them. I read the first chapter, and it sounded pretty cool...It had something to do with divine in the title...something like that...
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
If you want to get philosophical, "Godel, Esher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter won the Pulitzer. Note how GEB: EGB are permutations of each other. There is absolutely no limit on the cleverness of this text. The cleverness is recursive.
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I was going to mention this one too.

I also enjoyed The Mathematical Experience (Paperback) by Phillip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
Amazon - ISBN: 0395929687

 
There is a book of newton's laws the the theories behind them... forget the name...I read it and even if you are not a geek (it is very complicated though) it is extrmely interesting how the man thought and went about proving things
 
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