Book:Martin Gardner/Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
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Martin Gardner: Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
Published $\text {1965}$, Pelican
Reprint of The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions from $1959$.
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Hexaflexagons
- 2. Magic with a Matrix
- 3. Nine Problems (Answers on page 34)
- 4. Ticktacktoe, or Noughts and Crosses
- 5. Probability Paradoxes
- 6. The Icosian Game and the Tower of Hanoi
- 7. Curious Topological Models
- 8. The Game of Hex (Answers on page 77)
- 9. Sam Loyd: America's Greatest Puzzlist (Answers on page 84)
- 10. Mathematical Card Tricks
- 11. Memorizing Numbers
- 12. Nine More Problems (Answers on page 103)
- 13. Polyominoes
- 14. Fallacies
- 15. Nim and Tac Tix (Answers on page 141)
- 16. Left or Right?
- References for Further Reading