Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi

Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions

By: Martin Gardner

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Hardcover | 17 September 2009

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Packing 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.

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'Martin Gardner's fifteen volumes about Mathematical Games are The Canon - timeless classics that are always worth reading and rereading.' Don Knuth
'Gardner's monthly romp through recreational math and logic ran in Scientific American for 25 years, from the Sputnik splash to the Reagan reign, and nobody has been able to match it since. 'Mathematical Games' was an orgy of right-brain tomfoolery that could be approached for superficial fun or deep insight, or both at the same time ... I can't think of a better present for a clever 12-year old, bored undergraduate, restless retiree, or stay-at-home parent fearing intellectual stagnation.' David Brooks, The Telegraph

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Non-Fiction Mathematics Hobbies, Games & Puzzles Puzzles & Quizzes Sudoku & Number Puzzles

The binary system
Group theory and braids
Eight problems
The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll
Paper cutting
Board games
Sphere packing
The transcendental number Pi
Victor Eigen, mathemagician
The four-color map theorem
Mr. Apollinax visits New York
Nine problems
Polyominoes and fault-free rectangles
Euler's spoilers: the discovery of an Order-10 Graeco-Latin square
The ellipse
The 24 color squares and the 30 color cubes
H. S. M. Coxeter
Bridg-it and other games
Nine more problems
The calculus of finite differences
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Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi

Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions

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