Loving Math: The Sequel

About the Book

This book includes problems and projects (either in whole or in part) that my students worked on in my regular math classes, in my advanced math elective, or outside of school with my mentoring. The problems and projects include some that can be found in literature, some that I made up myself, and some (no doubt) that are both because what I made-up may have been made-up previously. I decided to compile some of the topics that my best students worked on and publish them for the benefit of other teachers, who could share them with their gifted students. Some of the problems and projects are presented with complete solutions, with every step detailed. Some are missing a number of the intermediary steps, which need to be filled in, and some are problems and projects that are only proposed without any solution offered. All the problems and applications are designed to challenge the best students and their teachers. The math disciplines range through geometry, algebra, trigonometry and calculus while the applications include physics, origami, investments and financial strategies, human modeling, etc.

About the Author

Lewis Forsheit grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School and was cocaptain of the Math Team in 1959. After receiving a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Columbia University School of Engineering, he was a successful aerospace engineer and engineering manager, specializing in aircraft and booster rocket control systems (yes, he really was a rocket scientist). In 1977, he changed careers to become a sales account executive and sales manager in the computer industry. Upon retiring from both careers in 2002, he returned to his academic passion of mathematics and became a high school math teacher, thereby fulfilling his destiny by joining the ranks of generations of teachers in his extended family. Now fully retired, he has written a sequel to his first book, Loving Math, published in 2004.