Book:Martin Gardner/Mathematical Carnival
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Martin Gardner: Mathematical Carnival
Published $\text {1975}$, Pelican
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Sprouts and Brussels Sprouts
- 2. Penny Puzzles
- 3. Aleph-null and Aleph-one
- 4. Hypercubes
- 5. Magic Stars and Polyhedrons
- 6. Calculating Prodigies
- 7. Tricks of Lightning Calculators
- 8. The Art of M. C. Escher
- 9. The Red-Faced Cube and Other Problems
- 10. Card Shuffles
- 11. Mrs. Perkins' Quilt and Other Square-Packing Problems
- 12. The Numerology of Dr. Fliess
- 13. Random Numbers
- 14. The Rising Hourglass and Other Physics Puzzles
- 15. Pascal's Triangle
- 16. Jam, Hot and Other Games
- 17. Cooks and Quibble-Cooks
- 18. Piet Hein's Superellipse
- 19. How to Trisect an Angle
- Bibliography