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Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

Authors:: Martin Gardner (author) and George Hardy (covers)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Penguin Books
Categories:: Mathematics and puzzle
Publication year:: 1965
Original publication year:: 1959
ISBN:: 0-14-02-0713-9
Pages:: 154
Synopsis:: Based on articles written for Scientific American, every chapter has an addendum, explaining further points or elaborating new ones, and some chapters have letters from people sent in after the article in question was published.
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Introduction

Hexaflexagons

Magic with a Matrix

Nine Problems

Ticktacktoe, or Noughts and Crosses

Probability Paradoxes

The Icosian Game and the Tower of Hanoi

Curious Topological Models

The Game of Hex

Sam Loyd: America's Greatest Puzzlist

Mathematical Card Tricks

Memorizing Numbers

Nine More Problems

Polyominoes

Fallacies

Nim and Tac Tix

Left or Right?

References for Further Reading