{"id":4455,"date":"2016-01-14T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:19:40","slug":"benjamin-book-ranked-among-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2016\/01\/14\/benjamin-book-ranked-among-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin&#8217;s Book Ranked Among the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How would you prove that, among any six people, there must exist either three mutual friends or three mutual strangers? Harvey Mudd mathematics Professor Arthur Benjamin\u2019s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2015\/02\/06\/benjamin-co-authors-book-graph-theory\/\"><em>The Fascinating World of Graph Theory<\/em><\/a> helps you tackle such problems with an informative approach that has earned it the American Library Association\u2019s Outstanding Academic Title distinction.<\/p>\n<p>Graph theory is the mathematics often used to express relationships between objects, such as those in fields like transportation science, data structures and social media. Co-authored by Benjamin, Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics, and Western Michigan University mathematics professors Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang, <em>The Fascinating World of Graph Theory<\/em> (Princeton University Press) has been praised for its accessibility, offering readers a vast array of fun, challenging questions and puzzles that can be solved by someone with a math background of high school algebra.<\/p>\n<p>Based on overall presentation, scholarship, academic relevance and value to students, the Outstanding Academic Title distinction is afforded to a small number of academic texts reviewed each year in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/acrl\/choice\/home\"><em>Choice<\/em><\/a>, the American Library Association\u2019s magazine. This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles selected by the editors of <em>Choice<\/em> and brings with it the recognition of the academic library community. At around just 10 percent of more than 6,500 works reviewed in <em>Choice<\/em> last year, the list is extremely selective. Thousands of academic librarians, faculty and key decision makers rely on <em>Choice<\/em> magazine\u2019s reviews for collection development and scholarly research.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is no stranger to writing fun and accessible mathematics texts. He is the author of <em>Secrets of Mental Math<\/em>\u2014a guide to performing his trademark Mathemagics\u2014and <em>Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof <\/em>(co-authored with Jennifer J. Quinn), a book on mathematical patterns that was also a <em>Choice<\/em> Outstanding Academic Title in 2004. His latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2015\/09\/01\/benjamin-writes-book-for-math-lovers-and-math-phobics\/\"><em>The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why<\/em><\/a>, seeks to show how the math we learned in school\u2014from basic counting and arithmetic to algebra, geometry and beyond\u2014can be easy, intuitive and fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you prove that, among any six people, there must exist either three mutual friends or three mutual strangers? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}