A Gardner's workout : training the mind and entertaining the spirit / / Martin Gardner
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| Autore: |
Gardner Martin <1914-2010.>
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| Titolo: |
A Gardner's workout : training the mind and entertaining the spirit / / Martin Gardner
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| Pubblicazione: | Natick, Mass., : A.K Peters, 2001 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 793.7/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mathematical recreations |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- 1: The Opaque Cube -- 2: The Square Root of 2: = 1: 414: 213: 562: 373: 095: ... -- 3: Flip, the Psychic Robot -- 4: The Propositional Calculus with Directed Graphs -- 5: Mathematics and Wordplay -- 6: Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard -- 7: Tiling the Bent Tromino -- 8: Covering a Cube with Congruent Polygons -- 9: Magic Tricks on a Computer -- 10: Variations on the 12345679: Trick -- 11: More Calculator Whimsies -- 12: Kasparov's Defeat by Deep Blue -- 13: Computers Near the Threshold? -- 14: Cornering the King -- 15: Toroidal Currency -- 16: Six Challenging Dissection Tasks -- 17: Lewis Carroll's Pillow-Problems -- 18: Lewis Carroll's Word Ladders -- 19: The Ant on 1: × 1: × 2 -- 20: Three-Point Tiling -- 21: Lucky Numbers and 218: -- 22: 3: × 3: Magic Squares -- 23: Some New Discoveries about 3: × 3: Magic Squares -- 24: Primes in Arithmetic Progression -- 25: Prime Magic Squares -- 26: The Dominono Game -- 27: The Growth of Recreational Mathematics -- 28: Maximum Inscribed Squares, Rectangles, and Triangles -- 29: Serial Isogons of 90: Degrees -- 30: Around the Solar System -- 31: Ten Amazing Mathematical Tricks -- 32: Modeling Mathematics with Playing Cards -- 33: The Asymmetric Propeller Theorem -- 34: Chess Queens and Maximum Unattacked Cells -- Part II -- 35: Lion Hunting -- 36: Two Books on Infinity -- 37: The Universe and the Teacup -- 38: A New Result on Perfect Magic Squares -- 39: The Number Devil -- 40: Probability 1 -- 41: Fuzzy New New Math. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | For many decades, Martin Gardner, the Grand Master of mathematical puzzles, has provided the tools and projects to furnish our all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout. Gardner's problems foster an agility of the mind as they entertain. This volume presents a new collection of problems and puzzles not previously published in book form. Martin Gardner has dedicated it to "all the underpaid teachers of mathematics everywhere, who love their subject and are able to communicate that love to their students." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A gardner's workout |
| ISBN: | 0-429-06239-7 |
| 1-4398-6409-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821730403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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