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Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” Department ran monthly in *SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN*. This second book is composed entirely of new games and puzzles that appeared there since Mr. Gardner’s first collection was published in 1959. Offering a new feast of mathematical entertainments to charm both layman and mathematician, some are easy, some are tough, and some call for scissors and paste. For most the only basic equipment needed is an alert and curious mind. All are connected, via the author’s clear and lively commentaries, to important aspects of mathematical thinking. Time will vanish as you turn Flexatubes inside out... play Piet Hein’s new game of Soma... consider the Mathematics of Cooling Coffee and Slicing Doughnuts... find your way through Hampton Court Maze (or any maze, in person or on paper)... explore, while folding a bird, the mathematics of Origami... divert yourself with Digital Roots... attack the maddening puzzle of the Monkey and the Coconuts. Play the new Induction Game of Eleusis - with a standard deck of cards - and you become a scientist outguessing the universe. Solve the new Smith-Jones-Robinson problems and you experience the triumphs of the logician. An eas

Author

Gardner, Martin, 1914-; Gardner, Martin, 1914- More mathematical puzzles and diversions from Scientific American

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140138238