Martin Gardner

Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521756105
• ISBN-10: 0521756103
• Artikelnr.: 23882109

Autorenporträt

For 25 of his 90 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 has also made significant contributions to magic, philosophy, debunking pseudoscience, and children's literature. He has produced more than 60 books, including many best sellers, most of which are still in print. His Annotated Alice has sold more than a million copies. He continues to write a regular column for the Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The five platonic solids
2. Tetraflexagons
3. Henry Dudeney: England's greatest puzzlist
4. Digital roots
5. Nine problems
6. The soma cube
7. Recreational topology
8. Phi: the golden ratio
9. The monkey and the coconuts
10. Mazes
11. Recreational logic
12. Magic squares
13. James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc.
14. Nine more problems
15. Eleusis: the induction game
16. Origami
17. Squaring the square
18. Mechanical puzzles
19. Probability and ambiguity
20. The mysterious Dr Matrix.