Book:Martin Gardner/The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
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Martin Gardner: The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
Published $\text {1991}$, The Universe of Chicago Press
- ISBN 0-226-28256-2
Subject matter
Contents
- NOTE TO THE 1991 EDITION
- 1 The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging
- 2 Knots and Borromean Rings
- 3 The Transcendental Number $e$
- 4 Geometric Dissections
- 5 Scarne on Gambling
- 6 The Church of the Fourth Dimension
- 7 Eight Problems
- 8 A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine
- 9 Spirals
- 10 Rotations and Reflections
- 11 Peg Solitaire
- 12 Flatlands
- 13 Chicago Magic Convention
- 14 Tests of Divisibility
- 15 Nine Problems
- 16 The Eight Queens and Other Chessboard Diversions
- 17 A Loop of String
- 18 Curves of Constant Width
- 19 Rep-Tiles: Replicating Figures on the Plane
- 20 Thirty-seven Catch Questions
- AFTERWORD
- BIBLIOGRAPHY