Book:Martin Gardner/Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

Reprint of from $1959$.

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