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Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi : Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions

ISBN: 9780521756075 | 0521756073
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 7/6/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
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
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
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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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