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Knots and borromean rings, rep-tiles, and eight queens : Martin Gardner's unexpected hanging /
"The hangman's paradox, cat's cradle, gambling, peg solitaire, pi and e - all these and more are back in Martin Gardner's inimitable style, with updates on new developments and discoveries. Read about how knots and molecules are related; take a trip into the fourth dimension; try...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York:
Cambridge university press,
2014.
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| Edition: | New edition. |
| Series: | The new Martin Gardner mathematical library ;
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| Online Access: | http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/56136/cover/9780521756136.jpg |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The paradox of the unexpected hanging; 2. Knots and Borromean rings; 3. The transcendental number e; 4. Geometric dissections; 5. Scarne on gambling; 6. The church of the fourth dimension; 7. Eight problems; 8. A matchbox game-learning machine; 9. Spirals; 10. Rotations and reflections; 11. Peg solitaire; 12. Flatlands; 13. Chicago magic convention; 14. Tests of divisibility; 15. Nine problems; 16. The eight queens and other chessboard diversions; 17. A loop of string; 18. Curves of constant width; 19. Rep-tiles: replicating figures in the plane; 20. Thirty-seven catch questions.