New Mathematical Diversions: More Puzzles, Problems, Games, and Other Mathematical Diversions
โ Scribed by Martin Gardner
- Publisher
- Mathematical Assn of America
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 261
- Series
- Spectrum Series
- Edition
- Rev Sub
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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.
Nothing -- More ado about nothing -- Factorial oddities -- The cocktail cherry and other problems -- Double acrostics -- Playing cards -- Finger arithmetic -- Moebius bands -- Ridiculous questions -- Polyhexes and polyaboloes -- Perfect, amicable, sociable -- Polyominoes and rectification -- Knight