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Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins
| Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (0 p.) |
| Disciplina | 793.74 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HenleMichael
HopkinsBrian |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematical recreations |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61444-801-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464302803321 |
| Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century / / edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins [[electronic resource]]
| Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century / / edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 510.76 |
| Collana | Spectrum |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematical recreations |
| ISBN | 1-61444-801-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | [Pt.] I. Geometry. The asymmetric propeller / Martin Gardner -- The asymmetric propeller revisited / Gillian Saenz, Christopher Jackson, and Ryan Crumley -- Bracing regular polygons as we race into the future / Greg W. Frederickson -- A platonic sextet for strings / Karl Schaffer -- Prince Rupert's rectangles / Richard P. Jerrard and John E. Wetzel -- [pt.] II. Number theory and graph theory. Transcendentals and early birds / Martin Gardner -- Squaring, cubing, and cube rooting / Arthur T. Benjamin -- Carryless arithmetic mod 10 / David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, and N.J.A. Sloane -- Mad tea party cyclic partitions / Robert Bekes, Jean Pedersen, and Bin Sha -- The continuing saga of snarks / sarah-marie belcastro -- The map-coloring game / Tomasz Bartnicki [and others] -- [pt.] III. Flexagons and Catalan numbers. It's okay to be square if you're a flexagon / Ethan J. Berkove and Jeffrey P. Dumont -- The V-flex, triangle orientation, and Catalan numbers in hexaflexagons / Ionut E. Iacob, T. Bruce McLean, and Hua Wang -- From hexaflexagons to edge flexagons to point flexagons / Les Pook -- Flexagons lead to a Catalan number identity / David Callan -- Convergence of a Catalan series / Thomas Koshy and Z. Gao -- [pt.] IV. Making things fit. L-tromino tiling of mutilated chessboards / Martin Gardner -- Polyomino dissections / Tiina Hohn and Andy Liu -- Squaring the plane / Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle -- Magic knight's tours / John Beasley -- Some new results on magic hexagrams / Martin Gardner -- Finding all solutions to the magic hexagram / Alexander Karabegov and Jason Holland -- Triangular numbers, Gaussian integers, and KenKen / John J. Watkins -- [pt.] V. Further puzzles and games. Cups and downs / Ian Stewart -- 30 years of Bulgarian solitaire / Brian Hopkins -- Congo bongo / Hsin-Po Wang -- Sam Loyd's courier problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras, and Martin Gardner / Owen O'Shea -- Retrolife and the pawns neighbors / Yossi Elran -- RATWYT / Aviezri Fraenkel -- [pt.] VI. Cards and probability. Modeling mathematics with playing cards / Martin Gardner -- The probability an amazing card trick is dull / Christopher N. Swanson -- The Monty Hall problem, reconsidered / Stephen Lucas, Jason Rosenhouse, and Andrew Schepler -- The secretary problem from the applicant's point of view / Darren Glass -- Lake Wobegon dice / Jorge Moraleda and David G. Stork -- Martin Gardner's mistake / Tanya Khovanova -- [pt.] VII. Other aspects of Martin Gardner. Against the odds / Martin Gardner -- A modular miracle / John Stillwell -- The golden ratio : a contrary viewpoint / Clement Falbo -- Review of The mysterious Mr. Ammann by Marjorie Senechal / Philip Straffin -- Review of PopCo by Scarlett Thomas / Martin Gardner -- Superstrings and Thelma / Martin Gardner. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789304003321 |
| Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century / / edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins [[electronic resource]]
| Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century / / edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 510.76 |
| Collana | Spectrum |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematical recreations |
| ISBN | 1-61444-801-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | [Pt.] I. Geometry. The asymmetric propeller / Martin Gardner -- The asymmetric propeller revisited / Gillian Saenz, Christopher Jackson, and Ryan Crumley -- Bracing regular polygons as we race into the future / Greg W. Frederickson -- A platonic sextet for strings / Karl Schaffer -- Prince Rupert's rectangles / Richard P. Jerrard and John E. Wetzel -- [pt.] II. Number theory and graph theory. Transcendentals and early birds / Martin Gardner -- Squaring, cubing, and cube rooting / Arthur T. Benjamin -- Carryless arithmetic mod 10 / David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, and N.J.A. Sloane -- Mad tea party cyclic partitions / Robert Bekes, Jean Pedersen, and Bin Sha -- The continuing saga of snarks / sarah-marie belcastro -- The map-coloring game / Tomasz Bartnicki [and others] -- [pt.] III. Flexagons and Catalan numbers. It's okay to be square if you're a flexagon / Ethan J. Berkove and Jeffrey P. Dumont -- The V-flex, triangle orientation, and Catalan numbers in hexaflexagons / Ionut E. Iacob, T. Bruce McLean, and Hua Wang -- From hexaflexagons to edge flexagons to point flexagons / Les Pook -- Flexagons lead to a Catalan number identity / David Callan -- Convergence of a Catalan series / Thomas Koshy and Z. Gao -- [pt.] IV. Making things fit. L-tromino tiling of mutilated chessboards / Martin Gardner -- Polyomino dissections / Tiina Hohn and Andy Liu -- Squaring the plane / Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle -- Magic knight's tours / John Beasley -- Some new results on magic hexagrams / Martin Gardner -- Finding all solutions to the magic hexagram / Alexander Karabegov and Jason Holland -- Triangular numbers, Gaussian integers, and KenKen / John J. Watkins -- [pt.] V. Further puzzles and games. Cups and downs / Ian Stewart -- 30 years of Bulgarian solitaire / Brian Hopkins -- Congo bongo / Hsin-Po Wang -- Sam Loyd's courier problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras, and Martin Gardner / Owen O'Shea -- Retrolife and the pawns neighbors / Yossi Elran -- RATWYT / Aviezri Fraenkel -- [pt.] VI. Cards and probability. Modeling mathematics with playing cards / Martin Gardner -- The probability an amazing card trick is dull / Christopher N. Swanson -- The Monty Hall problem, reconsidered / Stephen Lucas, Jason Rosenhouse, and Andrew Schepler -- The secretary problem from the applicant's point of view / Darren Glass -- Lake Wobegon dice / Jorge Moraleda and David G. Stork -- Martin Gardner's mistake / Tanya Khovanova -- [pt.] VII. Other aspects of Martin Gardner. Against the odds / Martin Gardner -- A modular miracle / John Stillwell -- The golden ratio : a contrary viewpoint / Clement Falbo -- Review of The mysterious Mr. Ammann by Marjorie Senechal / Philip Straffin -- Review of PopCo by Scarlett Thomas / Martin Gardner -- Superstrings and Thelma / Martin Gardner. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824613903321 |
| Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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