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The Last Recreations - Martin Gardner

The Last Recreations

Hydras, Eggs and Other Mathematical Mystifications

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Buch | Hardcover
392 Seiten
1997
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-94929-1 (ISBN)
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Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Recreations" column in "Scientific American" could be said to have defined the genre of popular mathematics writing for a generation. This is a collection of these columns, covering the period from 1979 to Gardner's retirement as a regular columnist in 1986.
Of all of Martin Gardners writings, none gained him a wider audience or was more central to his reputation than his Mathematical Recreations column in Scientific American - which virtually defined the genre of popular mathematics writing for a generation. Flatland, Hydras and Eggs: Mathematical Mystifications is the final collection of these columns, covering the period roughly from 1979 to Gardners retirement in 1986. As always in his published collections, Gardner includes letters commenting on the ideas presented in his articles. These columns show him at the top of his form and should not be missed by anyone with an interest in mathematics.

1 The Wonders of a Planiverse.- 2 Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks.- 3 Fun with Eggs, Part I.- 4 Fun with Eggs, Part II.- 5 The Topology of Knots.- 6 M-Pire Maps.- 7 Directed Graphs and Cannibals.- 8 Dinner Guests, Schoolgirls, and Handcuffed Prisoners.- 9 The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups.- 10 Taxicab Geometry.- 11 The Power of the Pigeonhole.- 12 Strong Laws of Small Primes.- 13 Checker Recreations, Part I.- 14 Checker Recreations, Part II.- 15 Modulo Arithmetic and Hummer's Wicked Witch.- 16 Lavinia Seeks a Room and Other Problems.- 17 The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim.- 18 Parabolas.- 19 Non-Euclidean Geometry.- 20 Voting Mathematics.- 21 A Toroidal Paradox and Other Problems.- 22 Minimal Steiner Trees.- 23 Trivalent Graphs, Snarks, and Boojums.

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Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 750 g
Einbandart gebunden
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
ISBN-10 0-387-94929-1 / 0387949291
ISBN-13 978-0-387-94929-1 / 9780387949291
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