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
- 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.
- Review:
An awesome book with lots of interesting things. Read the chapter titles in the table of contents for a preview.
- Has read?
- Yes
- Images:
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- Table of Contents:
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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
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