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The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

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Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambling odds. ''Gardner conjures problems that are both profound and silly; exquisite truths and outrageous absurdities; paradoxes, anagrams, palindromes and party tricks. . . . He knows, better than most, how many amazing true things there are in the world.''— Newsweek

Author(s): Martin Gardner
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Year: 1991

Language: English
Pages: 262

HOME......Page 0
CONTENTS......Page 7
NOTE TO THE 1991 EDITION......Page 8
The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging......Page 9
Knots and Borromean Rings......Page 22
The Transcendental Number e......Page 32
Geometric Dissections......Page 41
Scarne on Gambling......Page 50
The Church of the Fourth Dimension......Page 63
Eight Problems......Page 74
A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine......Page 88
Spirals......Page 101
Rotations and Reflections......Page 112
Peg Solitaire......Page 120
Flatlands......Page 134
Chicago Magic Convention......Page 145
Tests of Divisibility......Page 158
Nine Problems......Page 168
The Eight Queens and Other Chessboard Diversions......Page 184
A Loop of String......Page 196
Curves of Constant Width......Page 210
Rep-Tiles : Replicating Figures on the Plane......Page 220
Thirty-Seven Catch Questions......Page 232
Afterword......Page 243
Bibliography......Page 249