Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464302803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, 2012
• ISBN: 1-61444-801-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HenleMichael; HopkinsBrian
• Disciplina: 793.74
• Soggetti: Mathematical recreations; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: cover ; copyright page ; title page ; Preface; Contents; I Geometry; The Asymmetric Propeller; The Asymmetric Propeller Revisited; Bracing Regular Polygons As We Race into the Future; A Platonic Sextet for Strings; Prince Rupert's Rectangles; II Number Theory and Graph Theory; Transcendentals and Early Birds; Squaring, Cubing, and Cube Rooting; Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10; Mad Tea Party Cyclic Partitions; The Continuing Saga of Snarks; The Map-Coloring Game; III Flexagons and Catalan Numbers; It's Okay to Be Square If You're a Flexagon; The V-flex, Triangle Orientation, and Catalan Numbers in HexaflexagonsFrom Hexaflexagons to Edge Flexagons to Point Flexagons; Flexagons Lead to a Catalan Number Identity; Convergence of a Catalan Series; IV Making Things Fit; L-Tromino Tiling of Mutilated Chessboards; Polyomino Dissections; Squaring the Plane; Magic Knight's Tours; Some New Results on Magic Hexagrams; Finding All Solutions to the Magic Hexagram; Triangular Numbers, Gaussian Integers, and KenKen; V Further Puzzles and Games; Cups and Downs; 30 Years of Bulgarian Solitaire; Congo Bongo; Sam Loyd's Courier Problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras,and Martin GardnerRetrolife and The Pawns Neighbors; Ratwyt; VI Cards and Probability; Modeling Mathematics with Playing Cards; The Probability an Amazing Card Trick Is Dull; The Monty Hall Problem, Reconsidered; The Secretary Problem from the Applicant's Point of View; Lake ; Wobegon Dice; Martin Gardner's Mistake; VII Other Aspects of Martin Gardner; Against the Odds; A Modular Miracle; The Golden Ratio---A Contrary Viewpoint; Review of The Mysterious Mr. Ammann by Marjorie Senechal; Review of PopCo by Scarlett Thomas; Superstrings and ThelmaIndex; About the Editors; Index; About the Editors
• Sommario/riassunto: Martin Gardner enormously expanded the field of recreational mathematics with the Mathematical Games columns he wrote for Scientific American for over 25 years and the more than 70 books he published. He also had a long relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, publishing articles in MAA journals right up to his death in 2010. This book collects the articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999 to 2012 that spring from and comment on his work.