Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi
Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi
$130.00
USDPacking spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. These and other mathematical diversions return to readers with updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries. Read about Knuth's Word Ladders program and the latest developments in the digits of pi. Once again these timeless puzzles will charm readers while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics.
- Timeless puzzles from the 25 year run of the Scientific American 'Mathematical Games' columns
- Features extensive updates by Gardner that are not found in any other editions of these books
- Part of the first complete collection of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Library
Reviews & endorsements
"In this collection of 20 reprints of his "Mathematical Games" columns from 1959 and 1961 issues of Scientific American, Gardner shares his delight in recreational math. The renowned mathematics and science writer presents concepts exemplified by board games and puzzles by the author of Alice in Wonderland and others, with solutions, updated information, and references. Among Gardener's many books is The Annotated Alice. Published in association with the Mathematical Association of America."
Book News
"While Martin Gardner has always called himself "strictly a journalist," he should really be honored as one of this country's greatest cultural treasures."
The Washington Post
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Product details
July 2009Hardback
9780521756075
298 pages
250 × 145 × 20 mm
0.45kg
130 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. The binary system
- 2. Group theory and braids
- 3. Eight problems
- 4. The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll
- 5. Paper cutting
- 6. Board games
- 7. Sphere packing
- 8. The transcendental number Pi
- 9. Victor Eigen, mathemagician
- 10. The four-color map theorem
- 11. Mr. Apollinax visits New York
- 12. Nine problems
- 13. Polyominoes and fault-free rectangles
- 14. Euler's spoilers: the discovery of an Order-10 Graeco-Latin square
- 15. The ellipse
- 16. The 24 color squares and the 30 color cubes
- 17. H. S. M. Coxeter
- 18. Bridg-it and other games
- 19. Nine more problems
- 20. The calculus of finite differences.
