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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: 264
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CONTENTS
NOTE TO THE 1991 EDITION
The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging
Knots and Borromean Rings
The Transcendental Number e
Geometric Dissections
Scarne on Gambling
The Church of the Fourth Dimension
Eight Problems
A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine
Spirals
Rotations and Reflections
Peg Solitaire
Flatlands
Chicago Magic Convention
Tests of Divisibility
Nine Problems
The Eight Queens and Other Chessboard Diversions
A Loop of String
Curves of Constant Width
Rep-Tiles : Replicating Figures on the Plane
Thirty-Seven Catch Questions
Afterword
Bibliography
