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Crimes and Mathdemeanors
A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solving mysteries. The main character is Ravi, a 14-year-old math genius who helps the local police solve cases. Each chapter is a detective story with a mathematical puzzle at its core that Ravi is able to solve. The author invites the reade...more
Paperback, 196 pages
Published
April 24th 2007
by AK Peters
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Holy crap! I bought this book on a whim, expecting a couple word problems, but nothing too hard. I was way off. This book had real math problems! Like, hard ones. There is a lot of variety, and every problem is worthwhile. I hate to admit it, but even as a theoretical physicist, I was only able to solve about 3 or 4 of the problems. Maybe I could have solved more if I'd thought about them harder, but the problems were all so interesting that I had trouble resisting the urge to turn the pa...more
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