Book:Ian Stewart/Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

Contents

 * Acknowledgements


 * Second Drawer Down


 * Calculator Curiosity 1
 * Year Turned Upside Down
 * Luckless Lovelorn Lilavati
 * Sixteen Matches
 * Swallowing Elephants
 * Magic Circle
 * Dodgem
 * Press-the-Digit-ation
 * Secrets of the Abacus
 * Redbeard's Treasure
 * Hexaflexagons
 * Who Invented the Equals Sign?
 * Stars and Snips
 * By the Numbers of Babylon
 * Magic Hexagons
 * The Collatz-Syracuse-Ulam Problem
 * The Jeweller's Dilemma
 * What Seamus Didn't Know
 * Why Toast Always Falls Buttered-Side Down
 * The Buttered Cat Paradox
 * Lincoln's Dog
 * Whodunni's Dice
 * A Flexible Polyhedron
 * But What About Concertinas?
 * The Bellows Conjecture
 * Digital Cubes
 * Nothing Which Appeals Much to a Mathematician
 * What Is the Area of an Ostrich Egg?
 * Order into Chaos
 * Big Numbers
 * The Drowning Mathematician
 * Mathematical Pirates
 * The Hairy Ball Theorem
 * Cups and Downs
 * Secret Codes
 * When $2 + 2 = 0$
 * Secret Codes That Can Be Made Public
 * Calendar Magic
 * Mathematical Cats
 * The Rule of Eleven
 * Digital Multiplication
 * Common Knowledge
 * Pickled Onion Puzzle
 * Guess the Card
 * And Now with a Complete Pack
 * Halloween $=$ Christmas
 * Egyptian Fractions
 * The Greedy Algorithm
 * How to Move a Table
 * Rectangling the Square
 * Newton, by Byron
 * X Marks the Spot
 * Whatever's the Antimatter?
 * How to See Inside Things
 * Mathematicians Musing About Mathematics
 * Wittgenstein's Sheep
 * Leaning Tower of Pizza
 * PieThagoras's World-Famous Mince $\pi$s
 * Diamond Frame
 * Pour Relations
 * Alexander's Horned Sphere
 * The Sacred Principle of Mat
 * Perfectly Abundantly Amicably Deficient
 * Target Practice
 * Just a Phase I'm Going Through
 * Proof Techniques
 * Second Thoughts
 * How Dudeney Cooked Loyd
 * Cooking with Water
 * Celestial Resonance
 * Calculator Curiosity 2
 * Which is Bigger?
 * Sums That Go On For Ever
 * The Most Outrageous Proof
 * Colorado Smith and the Solar Temple
 * Why Can't I Add Fractions Like I Multiply Them?
 * Farey, Farey, Quite Contrary
 * Pooling Resources
 * Welcome to the Rep-Tile House
 * Cooking on a Torus
 * The Catalan Conjecture
 * The Origin of the Square Root Symbol
 * Please Bear with Me
 * The Ham Sandwich Theorem
 * Cricket on Grumpius
 * The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
 * The Missing Piece
 * The Other Coconut
 * What Does Zeno?
 * Pieces of Five
 * Pi in the Sky
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog
 * Mathematics Made Difficult
 * A Weird Fact about Egyptian Fractions
 * A Four Colour Theorem
 * Serpent of Perpetual Darkness
 * What Are the Odds?
 * A Potted History of Mathematics
 * The Shortest Mathematical Joke Ever
 * Global Warming Swindle
 * Name the Cards
 * What Is Point Nine Recurring?
 * Ghost of a Departed Quantity
 * Nice Little Earner
 * A Puzzle for Leonardo
 * Congruent Numbers
 * Present-Minded Somewhere Else
 * It's About Time
 * Do I Avoid Kangaroos?
 * The Klein Bottle
 * Accounting the Digits
 * Multiplying with Sticks
 * As Long as I Gaze on Laplacian Sunrise
 * Another Take on Mathematical Cats
 * Bordered Prime Magic Square
 * The Green-Tao Theorem
 * Peaucellier's Linkage
 * A Better Approximation to $\pi$
 * Strictly for Calculus Buffs
 * The Statue of Pallas Athene
 * Calculator Curiosity 3
 * Completing the Square
 * The Look and Say Sequence
 * Non-Mathematicians Musing About Mathematics
 * Euler's Conjecture
 * The Millionth Digit
 * Piratical Pathways
 * Trains That Pass in the Siding
 * Please Make Yourself Clear
 * Squares, Lists and Digital Sums
 * Hilbert's Hit-List
 * Match Trick
 * Which Hospital Should Close?
 * How to Turn a Sphere Inside Out
 * A Piece of String Walked into a Bar ...
 * Slicing the Cake
 * The Origin of the Symbol for Pi
 * Hall of Mirrors
 * Greek and Trojan Asteroids
 * Sliding Coins
 * Beat That!
 * Euclid's Puzzle
 * The Infinite Monkey Theorem
 * Monkeys Against Evolution
 * Universal Letter of Reference
 * Snakes and Adders
 * Powerful Crossnumber
 * Magic Handkerchiefs
 * A Bluffer's Guide to Symmetry
 * Digital Century Revisited
 * An Infinity of Primes
 * A Century in Fractions
 * Ah, That Explains lt ...
 * Life, Recursion and Everything
 * False, Not Stated, Not Proved
 * Proof That $2 + 2 = 4$
 * Slicing the Doughnut
 * The Kissing Number
 * Tippe Top Twister
 * When Is a Knot Not Knotted?
 * The Origin of the Factorial Symbol
 * Juniper Green
 * Mathematical Metajoke
 * Beyond the Fourth Dimension
 * Slade's Braid
 * Avoiding the Neighbours
 * Career Move
 * A Rolling Wheel Gathers No Speed
 * Point Placement Problem
 * Chess in Flatland
 * The Infinite Lottery
 * Ships That Pass ...
 * The Largest Number is Forty-Two
 * A Future History of Mathematics


 * Professor Stewart's Superlative Storehouse of Sneaky Solutions and Stimulating Supplements