Book:Martin Gardner/Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions

Martin Gardner: Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions

Published $\text {1988}$, The Universe of Chicago Press

ISBN 0-226-28254-6

Contents

Introduction (1988)

1. Hexaflexagons

2. Magic with a Matrix

3. Nine Problems

[Answers on page 27]

4. Ticktacktoe

5. Probability Paradoxes

6. The Icosian Game and the Tower of Hanoi

7. Curious Topological Models

8. The Game of Hex

[Answers on page 82]

9. Sam Loyd: America's Greatest Puzzlist

[Answers on page 93]

10. Mathematical Card Tricks

11. Memorizing Numbers

12. Nine More Problems

[Answers on page 114]

13. Polyominoes

14. Fallacies

15. Nim and Tac Tix

[Answers on page 161]

16. Left or Right?

Afterword, 1988

References for Further Reading

Further Editions

• 1959: Martin Gardner: The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
• 1965: Martin Gardner: Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions