Book:Martin Gardner/The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
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Martin Gardner: The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
Published $\text {1961}$
Subject matter
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Five Platonic Solids
- 2. Tetraflexagons
- 3. Henry Ernest 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 High 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
- References for Further Reading