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More 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:

1963

Original publication year:

1961

ISBN:

0-14-02-0748-1

Pages:

186

Synopsis:

This book is written in the same vein as Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions.

Review:

I truly loved this book. My favorite chapters are The Five Platonic Solids, Mazes, and Eleusis: The Induction Game.

Has read?

Yes

Debut?

No

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Table of Contents:

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• Introduction

1. The Five Platonic Solids
2. Tetraflexagons
3. Henry Ernest Dudeney: England's Greatest Puzzlist
4. Digital Roots
5. Nine Problems
6. The Soma Cube
7. Recreational Topology
8. Phi: The Golden Ratio
9. The Monkey and the Coconuts
10. Mazes
11. Recreational Logic
12. Magic Squares
13. James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc.
14. Nine More Problems
15. Eleusis: The Induction Game
16. Origami
17. Squaring the Square
18. Mechanical Puzzles
19. Probability and Ambiguity

• References for Further Reading

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