A Gardner's workout : training the mind and entertaining the spirit /
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Natick, Mass. :
A.K Peters,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The opaque cube
- 2. The square root of 2 = 1.414213562373095
- 3. Flip, the psychic robot
- 5. Mathematics and wordplay
- 6. Steiner trees on a checkerboard
- 7. Tiling the bent tromino
- 8. Covering a cube with congruent polygons
- 9. Magic tricks on a computer
- 10. Variations on the 123456789 trick
- 11. More calculator whimsies
- 12. Kasparov's defeat by deep blue
- 13. Computers near the threshold
- 14. Cornering the king
- 15. Toroidal currency
- 16. Six challenging dissection tasks
- 17. Lewis Carroll's pillow-problems
- 18. Lewis Carroll's word ladders
- 19. The ant on 1 x 1 x 2
- 20. Three-point tiling
- 21. Lucky numbers and 2187
- 22. 3 x 3 magic squares
- 23. Some new discoveries about 3 x 3 magic squares
- 24. Primes in arithmetic progression
- 25. Prime magic squares
- 26. The dominono game
- 27. The growth of recreational mathematics
- 28. Maximum inscribed squares, rectangles and triangles
- 29. Serial isogons of 90 degrees
- 30. Around the solar system
- 31. Ten amazing mathematical tricks
- 32. Modeling mathematics with playing cards
- 33. The asymmetric propeller theorem
- 34. Chess queens and maximum unattacked cells
- 35. Lion hunting
- 36. Two books on infinity
- 37. The universe and the teacup
- 38. A new result on perfect magic squares
- 39. The number devil
- 40. Probability 1
- 41. Fuzzy new new math.