Monthly Archives: June 2022

Permutation of fractions

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Always a perfect square

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Square within a square (method 2)

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Square Within a square (method 1)

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Where to held the chess tournament ?

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What ? In complex numbers Fermat’s last theorem doesn’t always hold !!!

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Professor Stewart’s cabinet of mathematical curiosities by Ian Stewart

I found this book at Morris Library and it became a favorite right then and there. Connecting box problem

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The art and craft of problem solving by Paul Zeitz

I got introduced to Paul Zeitz through his great course lectures. The book is very well written. There are number of problems I got introduced by him like Census taker

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Geometry problem on overlapping percentage between circle and square

The key insight in this problem is angle in a semicircle is 90 and since its a square the two segment areas will be same resulting in an isosceles right triangle. Here is a geogebra link

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Pointillism problem

If every point on the plane is colored either red, green or blue. Are there necessarily at least two pts of the same color that are 1 unit apart ?

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