Book:George Gamow/Puzzle-Math
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George Gamow and Marvin Stern: Puzzle-Math
Published $\text {1958}$, Macmillan & Co Ltd
- ISBN 0-226-28254-6
Contents
- Prologue: How This Book Came into Being
- 1. The Great Sultan
- Twelve in One
- A Family Problem
- Forty Unfaithful Wives
- The Date of the Hanging
- Abdul's Second Ordeal
- Horse Race in Reverse
- 2. Gamblin' Sam
- Cards in a Hat
- Aces
- Random Probability
- Matching Pennies
- Birthdays
- Tennis Tournament
- One-Sided Game
- 3. The Railroad Man
- Passing Trains
- Overlapping Trains
- The Bumblebee
- The Carrier Pigeons
- Daylight Saving
- 4. Travel Is So Broadening
- Three Soot-Smeared Faces
- A Kiss in the Dark
- Bread Rationing
- 5. Young Nicholas
- Domino Game
- Building-Blocks
- Diagonal Strings
- 6. The Yacht Club
- Windless Sails
- Boat and Bottle
- Gin and Tonic
- The Barge in the Lock
- 7. Aeronautica
- Against the Wind
- Homing Missiles
- Refueling
- Epilogue: The Moral