Synopses & Reviews
This delightful collection from the magician of math introduces readers to magic squares, the Generalized Ham Sandwich Theorem, origami, digital roots, an update of the Induction Game of Eleusis, Dudeney puzzles, the maze at Hampton Court palace, and many more mathematical puzzles and principles.
"Gardner is often the clown prince of science. . . . His Mathematical Games column in Scientific American is one of the few bridges over C. P. Snow's famous 'gulf of mutual incomprehension' that lies between the technical and literary cultures."Time
Description
Bibliography: p. 245-251.
About the Author
Martin Gardner is the author of The Annotated "Casey at the Bat," Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions, Logic Machines and Diagrams, Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Diversions, and many other books.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Five Platonic Solids
2. Tetraflexagons
3. Henry Ernest Dudeney: England's Greatest Puzzlist
4. Digital Roots
5. Nine Problems
6. The Soma Cube
7. Recreational Topology
8. Phi: The Golden Ratio
9. The Monkey and the Coconuts
10. Mazes
11. Recreational Logic
12. Magic Squares
13. James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc.
14. Nine More Problems
15. Eleusis: The Induction Game
16. Origami
17. Squaring the Square
18. Mechanical Puzzles
19. Probability and Ambiguity
20. The Mysterious Dr. Matrix
References for Further Reading
Postscript