Book:Martin Gardner/Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments

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Martin Gardner: Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments

Published $\text {1988}$, W.H. Freeman and Company

ISBN 0-7167-1925-8


Contents

PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE Time Travel
CHAPTER TWO Hexes and Stars
CHAPTER THREE Tangrams, Part 1
CHAPTER FOUR Tangrams, Part 2
CHAPTER FIVE Nontransitive Paradoxes
CHAPTER SIX Combinatorial Card Problems
CHAPTER SEVEN Melody-Making Machines
CHAPTER EIGHT Anamorphic Art
CHAPTER NINE The Rubber Rope and Other Problems
CHAPTER TEN Six Sensational Discoveries
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Császár polyhedron
CHAPTER TWELVE Dodgem and Other Simple Games
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Tiling with Convex Polygons
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Tiling with Polyominoes, Polyiamonds, and Polyhexes
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Curious Maps
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Sixth Symbol and Other Problems
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Magic Squares and Cubes
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Block Packing
CHAPTER NINETEEN Induction and Probability
CHAPTER TWENTY Catalan numbers
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Fun with a Pocket Calculator
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Tree-Plant Problems
INDEX OF NAMES