# Creative Mathematics

### By H.S. Wall

Catalog Code: CRMA
Print ISBN: 978-0-88385-750-2
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61444-101-4
216 pp., Hardbound, 2009
List Price: $53.95 MAA Member:$43.25
Series: Classroom Resource Materials

Creative Mathematics, according to Wall, “is not a compendium of mathematical facts and inventions to be read over as a connoisseur of art looks over paintings.” It is, instead, a sketchbook in which readers try their hands at mathematical discovery. The book is self-contained, and assumes little formal mathematical background on the part of the reader. Wall is earnest about developing mathematical creativity and independence in students. Wall developed Creative Mathematics over a period of many years of working with students at the University of Texas at Austin. In less than 200 pages, he takes the reader on a stimulating tour starting with numbers, and then moving on to simple graphs, the integral, simple surfaces, successive approximations, linear spaces of simple graphs, and concluding with mechanical systems. The student who has worked through Creative Mathematics will come away with heightened mathematical maturity.

Foreword
Preface
Short Biography of H. S. Wall
1. Numbers
2. Ordered Number Pairs
3. Slope
4. Combinations of Simple Graphs
6. The Simple Graphs of Trigonometry
7. The Integral
8. Computation Formulas Obtained by Means of the Integral
9. Simple Graphs Made to Order
11. Simple Surfaces
12. Successive Approximations
13. Linear Spaces of Simple Graphs
15. Mechanical Systems
Integral Tables
Index of Simple Graphs
Glossary of Definitions