Maxima and Minima without Calculus

Lester H. Lange, Ivan Niven

The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal · 1983 · 79 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Preface 1. Background material 2. Simple algebraic results 3. Elementary geometric questions 4. Isoperimetric results 5. Basic trigonometric inequalities 6. Polygons inscribed and circumscribed 7. Ellipses 8. The bees and their hexagons 9. Further geometric results 10. Applied and miscellaneous problems 11. Euclidean three-space 12. Isoperimetric results not assuming existence Postscript on calculus Solutions of problems References Index.