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New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #1: Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games

by Martin Gardner

New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #1: Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games Cover

 

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Publisher Comments:

Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi is the inaugural volume in The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library series. Based off of Gardener's enormously popular Scientific American columns, his puzzles and challenges can now fascinate a whole new generation Paradoxes and paper-folding, Moebius variations and mnemonics, fallacies, magic square, topological curiosities, parlor tricks, and games ancient and modern, from Polyminoes, Nim, Hex, and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensional ticktacktoe. These mathematical recreations, clearly and cleverly presented by Martin Gardner, delight and perplex while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics. Now the author, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries.

Book News Annotation:

This collection from Martin's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American was published by Simon and Schuster in 1959, and proved to be the first of 15 such collections. Now over 90, he has expanded his accounts of puzzles and games and updated the bibliographies. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

A thoroughly updated edition of the earliest book of Gardner's enormously popular Scientific American columns.

Synopsis:

The first of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780521735254
Author:
Gardner, Martin
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Recreations & Games
Subject:
Mathematical recreations
Subject:
Mathematics-Games and Puzzles
Copyright:
1959
Series:
New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library
Series Volume:
01
Publication Date:
20080931
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
193
Dimensions:
8.02x4.98x.42 in. .54 lbs.
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