L IBRARY Tatiana Shubin San Jos J ose e State Uni nivers versit ity y
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In November 2007 a group of 19 US mathematicians went to Russia on a 5-day trip to study their math circles. One of the many revelations from that trip has been finding their extensive library of books s ecif cifical call aimed at artici ants and leaders of math circles. (Incidentally, a vast majority of the text exts is availab available le on line – if you you read read Russ ussian ian you you . . books/)) books/ It was that library that inspired creation of a new series of books published by AMS together with the
THE PRECURSOR TO THE MSRI-MCL: this book was published in 1996 – before the advent of the MSRI. cherished resource for many circles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF Mathematical Circles (Russian Experience): the book is organized in two parts; each part provides materials su a e or a yea - ong ma c rc e.
Year one – Parity
– Divisibility and Remainders The Pigeonhole Principle Graphs -1 The Triangle Inequality Games Problems for the First Year
Divisibility: Congruences and Diophantine Eqs Combinatorics – 2 Invariants Graphs – 2 Geometry Number Bases nequa es Problems for the second Year
