Martin Gardner begins Riddles with questions about splitting up polygons into prescribed shapes and he ends this book with an offer of a prize of $100 for the first person to send him a 3 x# magic square consisting of consecutive primes. Only Gardner could fit so many diverse and tantalizing problem
The role of games, puzzles, and riddles in elementary mathematics
β Scribed by DORA DOHLER
- Book ID
- 125082897
- Publisher
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Year
- 1963
- Weight
- 358 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-136X
- DOI
- 10.2307/41186802
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Martin Gardner begins Riddles with questions about splitting up polygons into prescribed shapes and he ends this book with an offer of a prize of $100 for the first person to send him a 3 x# magic square consisting of consecutive primes. Only Gardner could fit so many diverse and tantalizing problem
These clearly and cleverly presented mathematical recreations of paradoxes and paperfolding, Moebius variations and mnemonics both ancient and modern delight and perplex while demonstating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other mathematical fields. "A classic."--Andrew Rothery, Times