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Cover 1 SPHERE PACKING, LEWIS CARROLL, AND REVERSI 3 THE NEW MARTIN GARDNER MATHEMATICAL LIBRARY 5 Title 7 Copyright 8 Dedication 9 Contents 11 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction 15 CHAPTER ONE The Binary System 17 ADDENDUM 24 ANSWERS 25 POSTSCRIPT 25 BIBLIOGRAPHY 26 CHAPTER TWO Group Theory and Braids 27 ADDENDUM 35 ANSWERS 37 POSTSCRIPT 37 BIBLIOGRAPHY 37 ON GROUP THEORY 38 CHAPTER THREE Eight Problems 39 1. ACUTE DISSECTION 39 2. HOW LONG IS A “LUNAR”? 39 3. THE GAME OF GOOGOL 40 4. MARCHING CADETS AND A TROTTING DOG 41 5. BARR’S BELT 42 6. WHITE, BLACK, AND BROWN 43 7. THE PLANE IN THE WIND 43 8. WHAT PRICE PETS? 44 ANSWERS 44 CHAPTER FOUR The Games and Puzzles of Lewis Carroll 54 ADDENDUM 59 ANSWERS 60 POSTSCRIPT 64 BIBLIOGRAPHY 65 CHAPTER FIVE Paper Cutting 67 ADDENDUM 76 ANSWERS 76 BIBLIOGRAPHY 78 CHAPTER SIX Board Games 80 ADDENDUM 88 ANSWERS 90 POSTSCRIPT 91 BIBLIOGRAPHY 93 ON RITHMOMACHY 93 ON ORIENTAL CHESS 93 ON FAIRY CHESS 94 ON REVERSI 94 CHAPTER SEVEN Packing Spheres 96 ADDENDUM 102 ANSWERS 104 POSTSCRIPT 104 BIBLIOGRAPHY 105 CHAPTER EIGHT The Transcendental Number π 107 ADDENDUM 115 ANSWERS 116 POSTSCRIPT 117 BIBLIOGRAPHY 120 ON COMPUTING THE DECIMALS OF π 121 ON HOBBE
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- Author
- Gardner, Martin
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521756075
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Science, Literary Fiction
Other editions & translations
- New mathematical diversions : more puzzles, problems, games and other mathematical diversions as they appeared in Scientific American with a post script and new (1995)
- Новые математические развлечения: еще больше головоломок, задач, игр и других математических развлечений от Мартина Гарднера по материалам Scientific American, (2009)
- Martin Gardener's New mathematical diversions from Scientific American (1966)
- New Mathematical Diversions: More Puzzles, Problems, Games, and Other Mathematical Diversions (Spectrum Series) (1995)
- Martin Gardner's new mathematical diversions from 'Scientific American' (1975)
- Mathematische Knobeleien (1973)
- Энциклопедия садовода (1987)
- New Mathematical Revised Edition (1995)
- Mathematische Knobeleien (1984)
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