Book:Ian Stewart/Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

Contents

 * Acknowledgements


 * Introducing Soames and Watsup
 * Note on Units
 * The Scandal of the Stolen Sovereign
 * Number Curiosity
 * Track Position
 * Soames Meets Watsup
 * Geomagic Squares
 * What Shape is an Orange Peel?
 * How to Win the Lottery
 * The Green Socks Caper Incident
 * Consecutive Cubes
 * Adonis Asteroid Mousterian
 * Two Square Quickies
 * Caught Clean-Handed
 * The Adventure of the Cardboard Boxes
 * The RATS Sequence
 * Birthdays Are Good for You
 * Mathematical Dates
 * The Hound of the Basketballs
 * Digital Cubes
 * Narcissistic Numbers
 * Piphilology, Piems and Pilish
 * Clueless!
 * A Brief History of Sudoku
 * Hexakosioihexecontahexaphobia
 * Once, Twice, Thrice
 * Conservation of Luck
 * The Case of the Face-Down Aces
 * Confused Parents
 * Jigsaw Paradox
 * The Catflap of Fear
 * Pancake Numbers
 * The Soup Plate Trick
 * Mathematical Haiku
 * The Case of the Cryptic Cartwheel
 * Two by Two
 * The V-shaped Goose Mystery
 * Eelish Mnemonics
 * Amazing Squares
 * The Thirty-Seven Mystery
 * Average Speed
 * Four Clueless Pseudoku
 * Sums of Cubes
 * The Puzzle of the Purloined Papers
 * Master of All He Surveys
 * Another Number Curiosity
 * The Opaque Square Problem
 * Opaque Polygons and Circles
 * $\pi r^2$?
 * The Sign of One
 * Progress on Prime Gaps
 * The Odd Goldbach Conjecture
 * Prime Number Mysteries
 * The Optimal Pyramid
 * The Sign of One: Part Two
 * Initial Confusion
 * Euclid's Doodle
 * Euclidean Efficiency
 * $123456789$ Times $X$
 * The Sign of One: Part Three
 * Taxicab Numbers
 * The Wave of Translation
 * Riddle of the Sands
 * Eskimo $\pi$
 * The Sign of One: Part Four -- Concluded
 * Seriously Deranged
 * Tossing a Fair Coin Isn't Fair
 * Playing Poker by Post
 * Eliminating the Impossible
 * Mussel Power
 * Proof that the World is Round
 * The Riddle of the Golden Rhombus
 * A Powerful Arithmetic Sequence
 * Why Do Guinness Bubbles Go Downwards?
 * Random Harmonic Series
 * The Dogs That Fight in the Park
 * How Tall is That Tree?
 * Why Do My Friends Have More Friends Than I Do?
 * Isn't Statistics Wonderful?
 * The Adventure of the Six Guests
 * How to Write Very Big Numbers
 * Graham's Number
 * Can't Wrap My Head Around It
 * The Affair of the Above-Average Driver
 * The Mousetrap Cube
 * Sierpiński Numbers
 * James Joseph Who?
 * The Baffleham Burglary
 * The Quadrillionth Digit of $\pi$
 * Is $\pi$ Normal?
 * A Mathematician, a Statistician, and an Engineer...
 * Lakes of Wada
 * Fermat's Last Limerick
 * Malfatti's Mistake
 * Square Leftovers
 * Coin Tossing over the Phone
 * How to Stop Unwanted Echoes
 * The Enigma of the Versatile Tile
 * The Thrackle Conjecture
 * Bargain with the Devil
 * A Tiling That Is Not Periodic
 * The Two Colour Theorem
 * The Four Colour Theorem in Space
 * Comical Calculus
 * The Erdős Discrepancy Problem
 * The Greek Integrator
 * Sums of Four Cubes
 * Why the Leopard Got Its Spots
 * Polygons Forever
 * Top Secret
 * The Adventure of the Rowing Men
 * The Fifteen Puzzle
 * A Tricky Six Puzzle
 * As Difficult as ABC
 * Rings of Regular Solids
 * The Square Peg Problem
 * The Impossible Route
 * The Final Problem
 * The Return
 * The Final Solution


 * The Mysteries Demystified