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Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments

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Author(s): Martin Gardner
Publisher: Freeman
Year: 1986

Language: English
Pages: 289

HOME......Page 0
CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Coincidence......Page 12
The Binary Gray Code......Page 22
Polycubes......Page 39
Bacon's Cipher......Page 55
Doughnuts: Linked and Knotted......Page 66
The Tour of the Arrows and Other Problems......Page 79
Napier's Bones......Page 96
Napier's Abacus......Page 105
Sim, Chomp and Racetrack......Page 120
Elevators......Page 134
Crossing Numbers......Page 144
Point Sets on the Sphere......Page 156
Newcomb's Paradox......Page 166
Reflections on Newcomb's Paradox......Page 173
Reverse the Fish and Other Problems......Page 187
Look-See Proofs......Page 203
Worm Paths......Page 216
Waring’s Problems......Page 233
Cram, Bynum and Quadraphage......Page 243
The I Ching......Page 255
The Laffer Curve......Page 268
Index of Names......Page 283