Thirty-Three Miniatures Mathematical and Algorithmic Applications of Linear Algebra

Name: Thirty-Three Miniatures Mathematical and Algorithmic Applications of Linear Algebra
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ISBN: 9780821849774

ISBN-10: 0821849778

ISBN-13: 9780821849774

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jiri Matousek

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'Thirty-three Miniatures' offers a collection of mathematical applications of linear algebra, mainly in combinatorics, geometry & algorithms. Each chapter covers a single main result with motivation & full proof in at most ten pages. A modest background in linear algebra is assumed.

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Publication date: 6/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 182
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Fibonacci numbers, quickly


Fibonacci numbers, the formula


The clubs of Oddtown Same-size intersections


Error-correcting codes


Odd distances Are these distances Euclidean?


Packing complete bipartite graphs


Equiangular lines


Where is the triangle?


Checking matrix multiplication


Tiling a rectangle by squares


Three Petersens are not enough


Petersen, Hoffman-Singleton, and maybe 57


Only two distances


Covering a cube minus one vertex


Medium-size intersection is hard to avoid


On the difficulty of reducing the diameter


The end of the small coins


Walking in the yard


Counting spanning trees


In how many ways can a man tile a board?


More bricks–more walls?


Perfect matchings and determinants


Turning a ladder over a finite field


Counting compositions Is it associative?


The secret agent and umbrella


Shannon capacity of the union: a tale of two fields


Equilateral sets


Cutting cheaply using eigenvectors


Rotating the cube


Set pairs and exterior products


Index