This is a collection of informative extracts from Gardners' ''Scientific American'' column. Each brain-teasing article has been updated to include new mists, new ideas, and new solutions. Highlights include two new chapters-one on pi and poetry, one on minimal sculpture-and intriguing forays into time reversal, forms of fractions and magic, and an imaginary ''Math Zoo'' with its own publication, ''ZOO-NOOZ''.
Author(s): Martin Gardner
Publisher: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
Year: 1991
Language: English
Pages: 334
HOME......Page 0
CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
White, Brown, and Fractal Music......Page 8
The Tinkly Temple Bells......Page 31
Mathematical Zoo......Page 46
Charles Sanders Peirce......Page 68
Twisted Prismatic Rings......Page 83
The Thirty Color Cubes......Page 95
Egyptian Fractions......Page 107
Minimal Sculpture......Page 117
Minimal Sculpture II......Page 140
Tangent Circles......Page 156
The Rotating Table and Other Problems......Page 174
Does Time Ever Stop? Can the Past Be Altered?......Page 198
Generalized Ticktacktoe......Page 209
Psychic Wonders and Probability......Page 221
Mathematical Chess Problems......Page 235
Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach......Page 250
Imaginary Numbers......Page 264
Pi and Poetry: Some Accidental Patterns......Page 278
More on Poetry......Page 288
Packing Squares......Page 296
Chaitin's Omega......Page 314
Name Index......Page 327
