Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics

✍ Scribed by Stewart, Ian

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ian Stewart presents readers with a wealth of magical mathematical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale - counting the cattle of the sun, the great drain robbery, preposterous piratical predicaments, and more.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
1. I know that you know that ...
2. Domino theories
3. Turning the tables
4. The anthropomurphic principle
5. Counting the cattle of the sun
6. The great drain robbery
7. Two-way jigsaw puzzles
8. Tales of a neglected number
9. Is Monopoly fair?
10. Monopoly revisited
11. A guide to computer dating
12. Dividing the spoils
13. Squaring the square
14. The bellows conjecture
15. Purposefully piling pyramids
16. Be a dots-and-boxes grandmaster
17. Choosily chomping chocolate
18. Shedding a little darkness
19. Preposterous piratical predicaments
20. Million-dollar minesweeper
Further reading

✦ Subjects

Mathematics