Perelman-Algebra_Can_Be_Fun torrent

Algebra can be fun by Yakov Perelman.

From the Preface

This is not an easy-reading text on algebra for beginners.
Neither is it a manual. It is a book for free reading. It is
designed for a reader with some knowledge of algebra, even
though half mastered and perhaps half forgotten. The
present text hopes to help the reader recall such haphazard
knowledge and polish it up, the aim being to fix certain
facts in his mind. It is meant to develop in the reader a
taste for algebra and problem-solving, and also excite him
to dip into algebra textbooks and fill in the blanks in his
knowledge.

To make the subject more attractive I have made use of
a variety of tools: problems with intriguing plots to excite
the reader's curiosity, amusing excursions into the history
of mathematics, unexpected uses that algebra is put to in
everyday affairs, and more.

This particular edition was edited and supplemented by V. G. Boltyansky and translated from the thirteenth Russian edition by George Yankovsky and was published by Mir in 1979.

DJVU | 1 MB | Cover | 234 pp

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Contents

From the Author's Preface to
the Third Edition 5
Chapter I. The Fifth Operation of Mathematics 11

Chapter II. The Language of Algebra 38

Chapter III. As an Aid to Arithmetic 92


Chapter IV. Diophantine Equations 116


Chapter V. The Sixth Mathematical Operation 146

Chapter VI. Second-Degree Equations 154


Chapter VII. Largest and Smallest Values 170 Two Trains 170


Chapter VIII. Progressions 195


Chapter IX. The Seventh Mathematical Operation 206