Book:Martin Gardner/Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements

Martin Gardner: Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements

Published $\text {1983}$, W.H. Freeman and Company

ISBN 0-7167-1589-9

Contents

Introduction

1. Wheels

2. Diophantine Analysis and Fermat's Last Theorem

3. The Knotted Molecule and Other Problems

4. Alephs and Supertasks

5. Nontransitive Dice and Other Probability Paradoxes

6. Geometrical Fallacies

7. The Combinatorics of Paper Folding

8. A Set of Quickies

9. Ticktacktoe Games

10. Plaiting Polyhedrons

11. The Game of Halma

12. Advertising Premiums

13. Salmon on Austin's Dog

14. Aim and Hackenbush

15. Golomb's Graceful Graphs

16. Charles Addams' Skier and other Problems

17. Chess Tasks

18. Slither, 3X + 1, and Other Curious Questions

19. Mathematical Tricks With Cards

20. The Game of Life, Part I

21. The Game of Life, Part II

22. The Game of Life, Part III

Name Index