Book:Martin Gardner/The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

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Martin Gardner: The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

Published $\text {1961}$


Subject matter


Contents

Introduction
1. The Five Platonic Solids
2. Tetraflexagons
3. Henry Ernest Dudeney: England's Greatest Puzzlist
4. Digital Roots
5. Nine Problems
6. The Soma Cube
7. Recreational Topology
8. Phi: The Golden Ratio
9. The Monkey and the Coconuts
10. Mazes
11. Recreational Logic
12. Magic Squares
13. James High Riley Shows, Inc.
14. Nine More Problems
15. Eleusis: The Induction Game
16. Origami
17. Squaring the Square
18. Mechanical Puzzles
19. Probability and Ambiguity
References for Further Reading


Further Editions