Book:Martin Gardner/The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

Martin Gardner: The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

Published $\text {1991}$, The Universe of Chicago Press

ISBN 0-226-28256-2

Subject matter

• Recreational mathematics

Contents

NOTE TO THE 1991 EDITION

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 on the Plane

20 Thirty-seven Catch Questions

AFTERWORD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Further Editions

• 1969: Martin Gardner: Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions
• 1977: Martin Gardner: Further Mathematical Diversions