Martin Gardner

Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Find new twists on knotted molecules, the hangman's paradox, cat's cradle, gambling, peg solitaire, pi and e in this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780521758710
• ISBN-10: 0521758718
• Artikelnr.: 26551274

Autorenporträt

For twenty-five years, Martin Gardner wrote 'Mathematical Games and Recreations', a monthly column for Scientific American magazine. These columns have inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to delve more deeply into the large world of mathematics. He also made significant contributions to magic, philosophy, debunking pseudoscience, and children's literature. He produced more than 60 books, including many best sellers, most of which are still in print, and wrote a regular column for the Skeptical Inquirer magazine from 1983 to 2002. His Annotated Alice has sold more than a million copies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The paradox of the unexpected hanging
2. Knots and Borromean rings
3. The transcendental number e
4. Geometric dissections
5. Scarne on gambling
6. The church of the fourth dimension
7. Eight problems
8. A matchbox game-learning machine
9. Spirals
10. Rotations and reflections
11. Peg solitaire
12. Flatlands
13. Chicago magic convention
14. Tests of divisibility
15. Nine problems
16. The eight queens and other chessboard diversions
17. A loop of string
18. Curves of constant width
19. Rep-tiles: replicating figures in the plane
20. Thirty-seven catch questions.