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Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements

Martin Gardner

Gardner, Martin;

Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements

W.H. Freeman, 1983, 261 pages

ISBN 0716715899, 9780716715894

topics: |  math | puzzle | origami | knot


  Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements (1983) Wheels
  Diophantine Analysis and Fermat's Last Theorem
  The Knotted Molecule and Other Problems
  Alephs and Supertasks
  Nontransitive Dice and Other Probability Paradoxes
  Geometrical Fallacies
  The Combinatorics of Paper Folding
  A Set of Quickies
  Ticktacktoe Games
  Plaiting Polyhedrons
  The Game of Halma
  Advertising Premiums
  Salmon on Austin's Dog
  Nim and Hackenbush
  Golomb's Graceful Graphs
  Charles Addams' Skier and Other Problems
  Chess Tasks
  Slither, 3X+1, and Other Curious Questions
  Mathematical Tricks with Cards
  The Game of Life, Part I
  The Game of Life, Part II
  The Game of Life, Part III


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009