Book:Martin Gardner/The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

Revised edition of from 1969.

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