Book:Ian Stewart/Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Contents

 * Start Here
 * Alien Encounter
 * Tap-an-Animal
 * Curious Calculations
 * Triangle of Cards
 * Pop-up Dodecahedron
 * Sliced Fingers
 * Turnip for the Books
 * The Four-Colour Theorem
 * Shaggy Dog Story
 * Shaggy Cat Story
 * Rabbits in the Hat
 * River Crossing 1 - Farm Produce
 * More Curious Calculations
 * Extracting the Cherry
 * Make Me a Pentagon
 * What is $$\pi$$?
 * Legislating the Value of $$\pi$$
 * If They Had Passed It ...
 * Empty glasses
 * How Many -
 * Three Quickies
 * Knight's Tours
 * Much Undo About Knotting
 * White-Tailed Cats
 * To Find Fake Coin
 * Perpetual Calendar
 * Mathematical Jokes 1
 * Deceptive Dice
 * An Age-Old Old-Age Problem
 * Why Does Minus Times Minus Make Plus?
 * Heron Suit
 * How to Unmake a Greek Cross
 * How to Remember a Round Number
 * The Bridges of Königsberg
 * How to do Lots of Mathematics
 * Euler's Pentagonal Holiday
 * Ouroborean Rings
 * The Ourotorus
 * Who Was Pythagoras?
 * Proofs of Pythagoras
 * A Constant Bore
 * Fermat's Last Theorem
 * Pythagorean Triples
 * Prime Factoids
 * A Little-Known Pythagorean Curiosity
 * Digital Century
 * Squaring the Square
 * Magic Squares
 * Squares of Squares
 * Ring a-Ring a-Ringroad
 * Pure v. Applied
 * Magic Hexagon
 * Pentalpha
 * Wallpaper Patterns
 * How Old Was Diophantus?
 * If You Thought Mathematicians Were Good at Arithmetic ...
 * The Sphinx is a Reptile
 * Six Degrees of Separation
 * Trisectors Beware!
 * Langford's Cubes
 * Duplicating the Cube
 * Magic Stars
 * Curves of Constant Width
 * Connecting Cables
 * Coin Swap
 * The Stolen Car
 * Space-Filling Curves
 * Compensating Errors
 * The Square Wheel
 * Why Can't I Divide by Zero?
 * River Crossing 2 - Marital Mistrust
 * Srvherefore Art Thou Borromeo?
 * Percentage Play
 * Kinds of People
 * The Sausage Conjecture
 * Tom Fool's Knot
 * New Merology
 * Numerical Spell
 * Spelling Mistakes
 * Expanding Universe
 * What is the Golden Number?
 * What are the Fibonacci Numbers?
 * The Plastic Number
 * Family Occasion
 * Don't Let Go!
 * Theorem: All Numbers are Interesting
 * Theorem: All Numbers are Boring
 * The Most Likely Digit
 * Why Call lt a Witch?
 * Möbius and His Band
 * Golden Oldie
 * Three More Quickies
 * Miles of Tiles
 * Chaos Theory
 * Après-Le-Ski
 * Pick's Theorem
 * Mathematical Prizes
 * Why No Nobel for Maths?
 * Is There a Perfect Cuboid?
 * Paradox Lost
 * When Will My MP3 Player Repeat?
 * Six Pens
 * Patented Primes
 * The Poincaré Conjecture
 * Hippopotamian Logic
 * Langton's Ant
 * Pig on a Rope
 * The Surprise Examination
 * Antigravity Cone
 * Mathematical Jokes 2
 * Why Gauss Became a Mathematician
 * What Shape is a Crescent Moon?
 * Famous Mathematicians
 * What is a Mersenne Prime?
 * The Goldbach Conjecture
 * Turtles All the Way Down
 * Hilbert's Hotel
 * Continuum Coaches
 * A Puzzling Dissection
 * A Really Puzzling Dissection
 * Nothing Up My Sleeve ...
 * Nothing Down My Leg ...
 * Two Perpendiculars
 * Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum?
 * What is e, and Why?
 * May Husband and Ay ...
 * Many Knees, Many Seats
 * Euler's Formula
 * What Day is It?
 * Strictly Logical
 * Logical or Not?
 * A Question of Breeding
 * Fair Shares
 * The Sixth Deadly Sin
 * Weird Arithmetic
 * How Deep is the Well?
 * MacMahon's Squares
 * What is the Square Root of Minus One?
 * The Most Beautiful Formula
 * Why is Euler's Beautiful Formula True?
 * Your Call May be Monitored for Training Purposes
 * Archimedes, You Old Fraud!
 * Fractals - The Geometry of Nature
 * The Missing Symbol
 * Where There's a Wall, There's a Way
 * Constants to 50 Places
 * Richard's Paradox
 * Connecting Utilities
 * Are Hard Problems Easy? or How to Win a Million Dollars by Proving the Obvious
 * Don't Get the Goat
 * All Triangles are Isosceles
 * Square Year
 * Gödel's Theorems
 * If $$\pi$$ isn't a Fraction, How Can You Calculate It?
 * Infinite Wealth
 * Let Fate Decide
 * How Many -
 * What Shape is a Rainbow?
 * Alien Abduction
 * The Riemann Hypothesis
 * Anti-Atheism
 * Disproof of the Riemann Hypothesis
 * Murder in the Park
 * The Cube of Cheese
 * The Game of Life
 * Two-Horse Race
 * Drawing an Ellipse - and More?
 * Mathematical Jokes 3
 * The Kepler Problem
 * The Milk Crate Problem
 * Equal Rights
 * Road Network
 * Tautoverbs
 * Complexity Science
 * Scrabble Oddity
 * Dragon Curve
 * Counterflip
 * Spherical sliced Bread
 * Mathematical Theology
 * Professor Stewart's Cunning Crib Sheet