This book offers creative problem solving techniques designed to develop and inspire inventive skills in students. It presents an array of selected elementary themes from arithmetic, algebra, geometry, analysis and applied mathematics. Includes solutions to over 100 problems and hints for over 150 further problems and exercises.
Preface Introduction.- 1 Chase problems.- 2 Sequences of Integers Simultaneously Prime.- 3 A Geometric Construction Using Ruler and Compass.- 4 Solving a Class of Nonlinear Systems.- 5 A Class of Homogenous Inequalities.- 6 The First Decimal of Some Irrational Numbers.- 7 Polynomial Approximation of Continuous Functions.- 8 On an Interesting Divisibility Problem.- 9 Determinants with Alternate Entries.- 10 Solving Some Cyclic Systems.- 11 On a Property of Recurrent Affine Sequences.- 12 Binomial Characterizations of Arithmetic Progressions.- 13 Using Duality in Studying Homographic Recurrences.- 14 Exponential Equations Having Exactly Two Solutions.- 15 A Class of Functional Equations.- 16 An Extension of the Leibniz-Newton Formula.- 17 A Measurement Problem.- 18 A Class of Discontinuous Functions Admitting Primitives.- 19 On Two Classes of Inequalities.- 20 Another Problem of Geometric Construction.- 21 How Can We Discover New Problems by Means of the Computer.- 22 On the Convergence of Some Sequences of Real Numbers.- 23 An Application of the Integral Mean.- 24 Difference and Differential Equations.- Addendum.