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Some problems have additional exercises at the end that can be solved in a similar manner or involve a similar piece of mathematics. While solving these problems, I will try to demonstrate some tricks of the trade when problem-solving. Two of the main weapons—experience and knowledge—are not easy to put into a book: they have to be acquired over time. But there are many simpler tricks that take less time to learn. There are ways of looking at a problem that make it easier to find a feasible attack plan. There are systematic ways of reducing a problem into successively simpler sub-problems. But, on the other hand, solving the problem is not everything. A solution should be relatively short, understandable, and hopefully have a touch of elegance.
It should also be fun to discover. Transforming a nice, short little geometry question into a ravening monster of an equation by textbook coordinate geometry does not have the same taste of victory as a two-line vector solution. As an example of elegance, here is a standard result in Euclidean geometry: Show that the perpendicular bisectors of a triangle are concurrent. This neat little one-liner could be attacked by coordinate geometry. Try to do so for a few minutes hours? Call the triangle ABC. Now let P be the intersection of the perpendicular bisectors of AB and AC. But this means that P has to be on the BC bisector. Hence all three bisectors are concurrent.
Incidentally, P is the circumcentre of ABC. P A B This kind of solution—and the strange way that obvious facts mesh to form a not-so-obvious fact—is part of the beauty of mathematics. I hope that you too will appreciate this beauty. x Preface to the first edition Special thanks to Basil Rennie for his corrections and ingenious short- cuts in solutions, and finally thanks to my family for their support, encouragement, spelling corrections, and put-downs when I was behind schedule. Almost all of the problems in this book come from published collections of problem sets for mathematics competitions. These are sourced in the texts, with full details given in the reference section of the book. I also used a small handful of problems from friends or from various mathematical publications; these have no source listed.
Preface to the second edition This book was written 15 years ago; literally half a lifetime ago, for me. In the intervening years, I have left home, moved to a different country, gone to graduate school, taught classes, written research papers, advised graduate students, married my wife, and had a son. Clearly, my perspective on life and on mathematics is different now than it was when I was I have not been involved in problem-solving competitions for a very long time now, and if I were to write a book now on the subject it would be very different from the one you are reading here. Mathematics is a multifaceted subject, and our experience and appreci- ation of it changes with time and experience. As a primary school student, I was drawn to mathematics by the abstract beauty of formal manipula- tion, and the remarkable ability to repeatedly use simple rules to achieve non-trivial answers. As an undergraduate, I was awed by my first glimpses of the rich, deep, and fascinating theories and structures which lie at the core of modern mathematics today.
Upon starting my career as a profes- sional research mathematician, I began to see the intuition and motivation that lay behind the theories and problems of modern mathematics, and was delighted when realizing how even very complex and deep results are often at heart be guided by very simple, even common-sensical, principles. And there are yet more aspects of mathematics to discover; it is only recently for me that I have grasped enough fields of mathematics to begin to get a sense of the endeavour of modern mathematics as a unified subject, and how it connects to the sciences and other disciplines. As I wrote this book before my professional mathematics career, many of these insights and experiences were not available to me, and so in many places the exposition has a certain innocence, or even naivety.
However, I have made a number of organizational changes: formatting the text into LATEX, arranging the material into what I believe is a more logical order, and editing those parts of the text which were inaccurate, badly worded, confusing, or unfocused. I have also added some more exercises. I am greatly indebted to Tony Gardiner for encouraging and supporting the reprinting of this book, and to my parents for all their support over the years. I am also touched by all the friends and acquaintances I have met over the years who had read the first edition of the book.
Last, but not least, I owe a special debt to my parents and the Flinders Medical Centre computer support unit for retrieving a year old electronic copy of this book from our venerable Macintosh Plus computer! Lao Tzu Like and unlike the proverb above, the solution to a problem begins and continues, and ends with simple, logical steps. But as long as one steps in a firm, clear direction, with long strides and sharp vision, one would need far, far less than the millions of steps needed to journey a thousand miles. One does not always have these luxuries in other forms of problem-solving e.
trying to go home if you are lost. Of course, this does not necessarily make it easy; if it was easy, then this book would be substantially shorter. But it makes it possible. There are several general strategies and perspectives to solve a problem correctly; Polya is a classic reference for many of these. Some of these strategies are discussed below, together with a brief illustration of how each strategy can be used on the following problem: Problem 1. A triangle has its lengths in an arithmetic progression, with difference d. The area of the triangle is t. Find the lengths and angles of the triangle. Understand the problem. What kind of problem is it? The type of problem is important because it determines the basic method of approach.
Of course, not all questions fall into these neat categories; but the general format of any question will still indicate the basic strategy to pursue when solving a problem. This is a better strategy than proving that such a hotel does or does not exist, and is probably a better strategy than picking any handy hotel and trying to prove that one can sleep in it. In Problem 1. We need to find several unknowns, given other variables. This suggests an algebraic solution rather than a geometric one, with a lot of equations connecting d, t, and the sides and angles of the triangle, and eventually solving for our unknowns. Understand the data. What is given in the problem? Usually, a question talks about a number of objects which satisfy some special requirements.
To understand the data, one needs to see how the objects and requirements react to each other. This is important in focusing attention on the proper techniques and notation to handle the problem. For example, in our sample question, our data are a triangle, the area of the triangle, and the fact that the sides are in an arithmetic progression with separation d. Because we have a triangle, and are considering the sides and area of it, we would need theorems relating sides, angles, and areas to tackle the question: the sine rule, cosine rule, and the area formulas, for example. Understand the objective. What do we want? One may need to find an object, prove a statement, determine the existence of an object with special properties, or whatever.
Knowing the objective also helps in creating tactical goals which we know will bring us closer to solving the question. This means, as mentioned before, that we will need theorems and results concerning sides and angles. Strategies in problem solving 3 Select good notation. Now that we have our data and objective, we must represent it in an efficient way, so that the data and objective are both rep- resented as simply as possible. This usually involves the thoughts of the past two strategies. In our sample question, we are already thinking of equations involving d, t, and the sides and angles of the triangle. We need to express the sides and angles in terms of variables: one could choose the sides to be a, b, and c, while the angles could be denoted α, β, γ.
The only slight drawback to this notation is that b is forced to be larger than d. Write down what you know in the notation selected; draw a diagram. Putting everything down on paper helps in three ways: a you have an easy reference later on; b the paper is a good thing to stare at when you are stuck; c the physical act of writing down of what you know can trigger new inspirations and connections. Be careful, though, of writing superfluous material, and do not over- load your paper with minutiae; one compromise is to highlight those facts which you think will be most useful, and put more questionable, redundant, or crazy ideas in another part of your scratch paper. But we can use some judgement to separate the valuable facts from the unhelpful ones. The equalities are likely to be more useful than the inequalities, since our object- ive and data come in the form of equalities. We can of course also draw a picture. There are many ways to vary a problem into one which may be easier to deal with: a Consider a special case of the problem, such as extreme or degenerate cases.
b Solve a simplified version of the problem. c Formulate a conjecture which would imply the problem, and try to prove that first. d Derive some consequence of the problem, and try to prove that first. e Reformulate the problem e. take the contrapositive, prove by con- tradiction, or try some substitution. f Examine solutions of similar problems. g Generalize the problem. This is useful when you cannot even get started on a problem, because solv- ing for a simpler related problem sometimes reveals the way to go on the main problem.
Similarly, considering extreme cases and solving the prob- lem with additional assumptions can also shed light on the general solution. But be warned that special cases are, by their nature, special, and some eleg- ant technique could conceivably apply to them and yet have absolutely no utility in solving the general case. This tends to happen when the special case is too special. Start with modest assumptions first, because then you are sticking as closely as possible to the spirit of the problem. Strategies in problem solving 5 In Problem 1. In this case we need to find the side length of an equilateral triangle of area t. This indicates that the general answer should also involve square roots or fourth roots, but does not otherwise suggest how to go about the problem. Consideration of similar problems draws little as well, except one gets further evidence that a gung-ho algebraic attack is what is needed. Modify the problem significantly. In this more aggressive type of strategy, we perform major modifications to a problem such as remov- ing data, swapping the data with the objective, or negating the objective e.
trying to disprove a statement rather than prove it. Basically, we try to push the problem until it breaks, and then try to identify where the break- down occurred; this identifies what the key components of the data are, as well as where the main difficulty will lie. These exercises can also help in getting an instinctive feel of what strategies are likely to work, and which ones are likely to fail. In regard to our particular question, one could replace the triangle with a quadrilateral, circle, etc. Not much help there: the problem just gets more complicated. But on the other hand, one can see that one does not really need a triangle in the question, but just the dimensions of the triangle. We do not really need to know the position of the triangle. So here is further confirm- ation that we should concentrate on the sides and angles i. a, b, c, α, β, γ and not on coordinate geometry or similar approaches.
We could omit some objectives; for example, instead of working out all the sides and angles we could work out just the sides, for example. But then one can notice that by the cosine and sine rules, the angles of the triangle will be determined anyway. So it is only neccesary to solve for the sides. We can also omit some data, like the arithmetic difference d, but then we seem to have several possible solutions, and not enough data to solve the problem. Similarly, omitting the area t will not leave enough data to clinch a solution. Sometimes one can partially omit data, for instance, by only specifying that the area is larger or smaller than some threshold t0 ; but this is getting complicated. Stick with the simple options first. Reversal of the problem swapping data with objective leads to some inter- esting ideas though. Suppose you had a triangle with arithmetic difference d, and you wanted to shrink it or whatever until the area becomes t.
One could imagine our triangle shrinking and deforming, while preserving the arithmetic difference of the sides. Similarly, one could consider all tri- angles with a fixed area, and mold the triangle into one with the sides in the correct arithmetic progression. These ideas could work in the long run: but I will solve this question by another approach. Prove results about our question. Data is there to be used, so one should pick up the data and play with it. Can it produce more meaningful data? Also, proving small results could be beneficial later on, when trying to prove the main result or to find the answer. However small the result, do not for- get it—it could have bearing later on. Besides, it gives you something to do if you are stuck. But one can try. For example, our tactical goal is to solve for b. This depends on the two parameters d and t. If this notation looks out of place in a geometry question, then that is only because geometry tends to ignore the functional depend- ence of objects.
We could even try differentiate b with respect to d or t. However, in this problem these tricks turn out to only give minor advantages and we will not use them here. Simplify, exploit data, and reach tactical goals. Now we have set up notation and have a few equations, we should seriously look at attaining our tactical goals that we have established. In simple problems, there are usually standard ways of doing this. For example, algebraic simplification is usually discussed thoroughly in high-school level textbooks. Generally, this part is the longest and most difficult part of the problem: however, once can avoid getting lost if one remembers the relevant theorems, the data and how they can be used, and most importantly the objective.
It is also a good idea to not apply any given technique or method blindly, but to think ahead and see where one could hope such a technique to take one; this can allow one to save enormous amounts of time by eliminating unprofitable direc- tions of inquiry before sinking lots of effort into them, and conversely to give the most promising directions priority. We can use this to attain our tactical goal of solving for b. After all, we have already noted that the sine and cosine rules can determine α, β, γ once b is known. The right-hand side is a polynomial in b treat- ing d and t as constants , and in fact it is a quadratic in b2. William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Number theory may not neccesarily be divine, but it still has an aura of mystique about it.
Unlike algebra, which has as its backbone the laws of manipulating equations, number theory seems to derive its results from a source unknown. Algebraically, we are talking about an extremely simple equation: but because we are restricted to the integers, the rules of algebra fail. The result is infuriatingly innocent-looking and experimentation shows that it does seem to work, but offers no explanation why. Other problems, though, are not as deep. Here are some simple examples, all involving a natural number n: a n always has the same last digit as its fifth power n5. b n is a multiple of 9 if and only if the sum of its digits is a multiple of 9.
e There are exactly four numbers that are n digits long allowing for padding by zeroes and which are exactly the same last digits as their square. For instance, the four three-digit numbers with this property are , , , and These statements can all be proved by elementary number theory; all revolve around the basic idea of modular arithmetic, which gives you the power of algebra but limited to a finite number of integers. Inciden- tally, trying to solve the last assertion e can eventually lead to the notion of p-adics, which is sort of an infinite-dimensional form of modular arithmetic.
But the applications that stem from the basic concepts of integers and divisibil- ity are amazingly diverse and powerful. The concept of divisibility leads naturally to that of primes, which moves into the detailed nature of factor- ization and then to one of the jewels of mathematics in the last part of the previous century: the prime number theorem, which can predict the number of primes less than a given number to a good degree of accuracy. Number theory is a fundamental corner- stone which supports a sizeable chunk of mathematics. And, of course, it is fun too. Before we begin looking at problems, let us review some basic notation. A natural number is a positive integer we will not consider 0 a natural number. The set of natural numbers will be denoted as N. A prime number is a natural number with exactly two factors: itself and 1; we do not consider 1 to be prime. Two natural numbers m and n are coprime if their only common factor is 1.
Modular arithmetic also dif- fers from standard arithmetic in that inequalities do not exist, and that all numbers are integers. It may seem strange to divide in this round-about way, but in fact one can find that there is no real contradiction, although some divisions are illegal, just as division-by-zero is illegal within the traditional field of real numbers. As a general rule, division is OK if the denominator is coprime with the modulus n. Certainly, digit summing appears fairly often in mathematics competition problems, such as this one.
Problem 2. Show that among any 18 consecutive three-digit numbers there is at least one which is divisible by the sum of its digits. This is a finite problem: there are only or so three-digit numbers, so theoretically we could evaluate the problem manually. But let us see if we can save ourselves some work. First of all, the objective looks a little weird: we want the number to be divisible by the sum of digits. Let us first write down the objective as a mathematical formula, so that we can manipulate it more easily. Can we reduce, simplify, or somehow make usable this equation? It is possible, but it is not simplifiable to anything halfway decent e.
a useful equation connecting a, b, and c directly. Take a look at the solutions abc10 of 1 : , , , , , , , , , ,. They seem to be haphazard and random. However, they do seem to occur often enough so that any run of 18 consecutive numbers should have one. And what is the significance of the 18 anyway? Assuming it is not a red herring, perhaps only 13 consecutive numbers are needed, but the 18 is there to throw you off the track why have 18? It may occur to some that the sums of digits of a number are rather related to the number 9 e. any number has the same remainder as its digit sum upon dividing by 9 and 18 is related to 9, so there could be a vague connection.
Still, consecutive numbers and divisibility do not mix. It seems that we have to reformulate the question or propose a related one to have a hope of solving it. In fact there are only three exceptions on the list above , , and , and practically all of the multiples of 9 satisfy 1. So instead of trying to prove For any 18 consecutive numbers, at least one solves 1. directly, we could try something like For any 18 consecutive numbers, there is a multiple of 9 which solves 1. Now this particular stepping stone considering multiples of 9 does work, but a bit of extra work is needed to cover all the cases. It seems neater, and more appropriate, to use multiples of 18 than to use multiples of 9. After all, if we use multiples of 9 to solve the problem, the question would only need 9 consecutive numbers instead of Indeed, it turns out that multiples of 9 do not always work consider for instance , but multiples of 18 will, as we shall see.
Anyway, experimentation shows that multiples of 18 seem to work. But why? Take, for example, , which is a multiple of The sum of digits is 9, and 9 divides because 18 divides To consider another example: is a multiple of 18, and the sum of digits is Hence is obviously divisible by its digit sum. And with these guesses a proof soon follows: Proof. Within the 18 consecutive numbers, one must be a multiple of 18, say abc Remember the divisibility rule for 9? A number is divisible by 9 if and only if its digit sum is divisible by 9. A cumbersome formula should be simplified into something more manageable. It turned out to be a good guess, though.
And remember that with finite problems, the strategies are not like those in higher mathematics. A final remark: It turns out that 18 consecutive numbers are the least number needed to insure one of them satisfies 1. Seventeen numbers would not work; consider for instance the sequence from to I used a computer for that, not some tricky mathematics. Of course, one does not need to know this fact in order to solve the problem. Exercise 2. Then the magician asks the participant to add the five numbers acb10 , bac10 , bca10 , cab10 , and cba10 , and reveal their sum. Suppose the sum was Hint: Get a better expression for the sum of the five numbers, something more mathematical.
Then use modular arithmetic to get some bounds on a, b, and c. Is there a power of 2 such that its digits could be rearranged and made into another power of 2? No zeroes are allowed in the leading digit: for example, is not allowed. This seems like an unsolvable combination: powers of 2, and digit rearran- ging. This is because a digit rearrangement has so many possibilities; b it is not easy to determine individual digits of a power of 2. This probably means that something sneaky is needed. The first sneaky thing to be done is to guess the answer. On the other hand, some exceptionally ingenious construction could pull off a clever rearrangement of digits—but such a construction is probably not easy to find. Guess the easy options first. If you are right, you have saved a lot of time by not pursuing the hard ways. If you are wrong, you were doomed to a long haul anyway.
This does not mean that you should forget about a promising but hard way to solve the problem: but rather, to take a sensible look around before plunging into deep water. Like in Problem 2. In Problem 2. We did not want to introduce all the complications of an exact equation. It will prob- ably be much the same here: we have to simplify the problem by generalizing the digit-switching process. From a purely logical viewpoint, we are worse off because we have to prove more: but in terms of clarity and simplicity we are gaining ground. Why burden yourself with data that cannot be used? It will just be a distraction. So, we now have to pick out the main properties of powers of 2 and digit- switching — hopefully, we will find properties of one that are incompatible with the other.
Now let us tackle powers of 2 first; they are easier to handle. Here they are: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, , , , , , , , , , ,. The last digit of a power of 2 is obviously even except for the number 1 , but the other digits are quite random-looking. Suppose you took the number , for instance. An odd digit, a few even digits, and even a 0 digit here. What is stopping it being rearranged into another power of 2? So, does size count? Even shallowly dug gold has to be searched—and held on to. Well, with this iota of information, can we proceed with our generalizing plan? Our generalized question is now Is there a power of 2 such that there is another power of 2 with the same number of digits as the first power of 2?
We were too general. Again, look to Problem 2. In short, we have not found enough facts about our problem to solve it. Yet, we are still partially successful, because we have restricted the possibilities of digit rearranging. Take the number again. This can only be rearranged into another four-digit number. And how many four- digit powers of 2 are there? Only four—, , , and In fact, one can soon see that at most four powers of 2 can have the same number of digits. The fifth consecutive power of 2 would be 16 times that of the first, and hence would have to have more digits than the first power of 2. So what this means is that for each power of 2, there are at most three other powers of 2 that could possibly be digit- rearrangements of the original power of 2. A partial victory: only three or fewer suspects left to eliminate for each power of 2, instead of the infinite number we had before. Perhaps with a bit of extra work we can eliminate those suspects as well.
We have said that when we switch the digits, the number you end up with has the same number of digits as the original. But the reverse is far from true, and this lone property of digit-switching will not solve the problem on its own. Let us reel ourselves in again. Something else could be preserved when we switch digits. Let us take a look at some examples—let us take again, since we have already got some experience with this number. The digit-switching possibilities are , , , , ,, , , , , , , , ,, , , What do they have in common? They have the same set of digits. However, the sum of digits is a more conventional weapon. And, well, if two numbers have the same set of digits, then they have to have the same digit-sum. So we have another iota of information: digit-switching preserves the digit-sum. Combining this with our previous iota we have a new replacement question: Is there a power of 2 such that there is another power of 2 with the same number of digits and the same digit-sum as the first power of 2?
Again, if this question is true, the original question is true. With this new concept in mind, let us look at the digit-sums of the powers of 2, seeing as our new question involves them. For instance, the digit-sum of is a mere This is actually a small bit of bad luck, because small num- bers are more likely to match than are big numbers. If 10 people each randomly pick one two-digit number, there is a sizeable 9. But the smallness of the numbers also aids in picking out patterns, so perhaps it is not all bad news. But it seems that the digit-sums slowly climbs higher anyway: you would expect that a digit power of 2 would have a higher digit-sum than a digit one.
But also remember that we are confining ourselves to powers of 2 with the same number of digits, so this idea will not be of much help. The upshot of these observations is this: digit-sums have an easily appre- ciable macroscopic structure slowly increasing with n; in fact it is highly probable though not proven! that the digit-sum of 2n is approximately 4. The digits just fluctuate too much. Is there another reduction of the problem that will leave us with something we can really work with? Take a look at the preceding question for instance. So now our new modified question is as follows: Is there a power of 2 such that there is another power of 2 with the same number of digits and the same digit-sum modulo 9 as the first power of 2?
Now we can use the fact that a number is equal to its digit-sum modulo 9 to rephrase this question again: Is there a power of 2 such that there is another power of 2 with the same number of digits and the same remainder mod 9 as the first power of 2? mod 9 mod 9 mod 9 Power of 2 Remainder Power of 2 Remainder Power of 2 Remainder 1 1 4 65, 7 2 2 8 , 5 4 4 1, 7 , 1 8 8 2, 5 , 2 16 7 4, 1 1,, 4 32 5 8, 2 64 1 16, 4 2 32, 8 What we have to prove is that no two powers of 2 have the same remainder mod 9 and the same number of digits. Well, looking at the table, there are several powers of 2 with the same remainder: 1, 64, , and for example. But none of these four have the same number of digits. Indeed, powers of 2 with the same remainder mod 9 seem to be so separated that there is no hope of them having the same number of digits.
In fact, the powers of 2 with the same remainder seem to be quite regularly spaced. and one can quickly see that the remainders mod 9 repeat themselves every six steps. This result means that the remainders of the powers of 2 will repeat themselves endlessly, like a repeating decimal: 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 5,. This in turn means that two powers of 2 with the same digit-sum mod 9 must be at least six steps apart. But then the powers of 2 cannot possibly have the same number of digits, because one would be 64 times bigger than the other, at least. So this means that there are no powers of 2 with the same number of digits and the same digit-sum mod 9. We have now proved our modified question, so we can work backwards until we reach our original question, and write out the full answer: Proof. Suppose two powers of 2 are related by digit-switching. This means that they have the same number of digits, and also have the same digit-sum mod 9.
But the digit-sums mod 9 are periodic with a period of 6, with no repetitions within any given period, so the two powers are at least six steps apart. But then it is impossible for them to have the same number of digits, a contradiction. This simplification can be a bit of a hit-and-miss affair; there is always the danger of oversimplification, or mis-simplification simplifying into a red herring. But in this question, almost anything was better than playing around with digit-switching, so simplification could not do much more harm. There is a chance that maneuvering and simplifying may land you into a wild goose chase, but if you are really stuck anyway, anything is worth a try. The usual objective is to find all solutions to the equation. Generally, there is more than one solution, even if everything is integral. These equations can be solved algebraically, but one also can use the number-theoretical methods of integer division, modular arithmetic, and integral factorization.
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