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Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi : Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions
ISBN: 9780521747011 | 0521747015
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 7/6/2009
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Martin Gardner returns to charm readers with the latest on packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. Read about Knuth's Word Ladders program, new ways of finding the digits of pi, and much much more.
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 dis... MORE
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 dis... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| The Binary System | p. 1 |
| Group Theory and Braids | p. 11 |
| Eight Problems | p. 23 |
| The Games and Puzzles of Lewis Carroll | p. 38 |
| Paper Cutting | p. 51 |
| Board Games | p. 64 |
| Packing Spheres | p. 80 |
| The Transcendental Number ¿ | p. 91 |
| Victor Eigen: Mathemagician | ... MOREp. 106 |
| The Four-Color Map Theorem | p. 118 |
| Mr. Apollinax Visits New York | p. 132 |
| Nine Problems | p. 142 |
| Polyominoes and Fault-Free Rectangles | p. 160 |
| Euler's Spoilers: The Discovery of an Order-10 Graeco-Latin Square | p. 175 |
| The Ellipse | p. 189 |
| The 24 Color Squares and the 30 Color Cubes | p. 202 |
| H. S. M. Coxeter | p. 216 |
| Bridg-it and Other Games | p. 232 |
| Nine More Problems | p. 241 |
| The Calculus of Finite Differences | p. 261 |
| Index | p. 275 |
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