New Mathematical Diversions: More Puzzles, Problems, Games, and Other Mathematical Diversions (Spectrum Series)

✍ Scribed by Martin Gardner

• Publisher: Mathematical Assn of America
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Series: Spectrum Series
• Edition: Rev Sub
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If there were a mathematics of watching paint dry, Martin Gardner would make it interesting. Without peer as a popularizer of mathematics, he is equally adept at explaining all areas. This book, another updated collection of his Scientific American columns, is a twenty member set of polished pearls. Although somewhat mundane as a descriptive adjective, the word readable fits his writing like a custom made body stocking. Always interesting and entertaining, reading his essays is somewhat like eating tiny chocolate bars. You can't get enough, each seems too small, and there are no negative side effects.

Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.

✦ Table of Contents

HOME......Page 0
CONTENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
The Binary System......Page 13
Group Theory and Braids......Page 23
Eight Problems......Page 34
The Games and Puzzles of Lewis Carroll......Page 47
Paper Cutting......Page 58
Board Games......Page 70
Packing Spheres......Page 82
The Transcendental Number Pi......Page 91
Victor Eigen: Mathemagician......Page 103
The Four-Color Map Theorem......Page 113
Mr. Apollinax Visits New York......Page 124
Nine Problems......Page 134
Polyominoes and Fault-Free Rectangles......Page 150
Euler's Spoilers: The Discovery of an Order-10 Graeco-Latin Square......Page 162
The Ellipse......Page 173
The 24 Color Squares and the 30 Color Cubes......Page 184
H.S.M. Coxeter......Page 196
Bridg-it and Other Games......Page 210
Nine More Problems......Page 219
The Calculus of Finite Differences......Page 234
Postscript......Page 247
Bibliography......Page 259

✦ Subjects

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