Book:Martin Gardner/The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

Subject matter

 * Recreational mathematics

Contents

 * Introduction


 * 1. Hexaflexagons


 * 2. Magic with a Matrix


 * 3. Nine Problems (Answers on page 34)


 * 4. Ticktacktoe, or Noughts and Crosses


 * 5. Probability Paradoxes


 * 6. The Icosian Game and the Tower of Hanoi


 * 7. Curious Topological Models


 * 8. The Game of Hex (Answers on page 77)


 * 9. Sam Loyd: America's Greatest Puzzlist (Answers on page 84)


 * 10. Mathematical Card Tricks


 * 11. Memorizing Numbers


 * 12. Nine More Problems (Answers on page 103)


 * 13. Polyominoes


 * 14. Fallacies


 * 15. Nim and Tac Tix (Answers on page 141)


 * 16. Left or Right?


 * References for Further Reading