Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Diversions: 2 (The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library, Series Number 2)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/13/2008
EAN 9780521735247, ISBN10: 0521735246
Paperback, 248 pages, 21.1 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Martin Gardner continues to delight. He introduces readers to the Generalized Ham Sandwich Theorem, origami, digital roots, magic squares, the mathematics of cooling coffee, the induction game of Eleusis, Dudeney puzzles, the maze at Hampton Court Palace, and many more mathematical puzzles and principles. Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube is the second volume in Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Library, based on his enormously popular Scientific American columns. Now the author, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries, to challenge and fascinate a new generation of readers.
1. The five platonic solids
2. Tetraflexagons
3. Henry Dudeney
England's greatest puzzlist
4. Digital roots
5. Nine problems
6. The soma cube
7. Recreational topology
8. Phi
the golden ratio
9. The monkey and the coconuts
10. Mazes
11. Recreational logic
12. Magic squares
13. James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc.
14. Nine more problems
15. Eleusis
the induction game
16. Origami
17. Squaring the square
18. Mechanical puzzles
19. Probability and ambiguity
20. The mysterious Dr Matrix.