Gardner The Last Recreations

Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-30389-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

"Of all of Martin Gardner's 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 will be the final collection of these columns, covering a period roughly from 1979 to Gardner's retirement as a regular columnist in 1986. The notable trend over Gardner's career is the increasing sophistication of the mathematics he has been able to translate into his famously lucid prose. These columns show him at the top of his form and are not to be missed by anyone with an interest in mathematics. As always in his published collections, Gardner includes letters received from mathematicians and other commenting on the ideas presented in the columns."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gardner, Martin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;7
3;The Wonders of a Planiverse;9
4;Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks;34
5;Fun with Eggs, Part I;51
6;Fun with Eggs, Part II;65
7;The Topology of Knots;72
8;M- Pire Haps;90
9;Directed Graphs and Cannibals;106
10;Dinner Guests, Schoolgirls, and Handcuffed Prisoners;126
11;The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups;144
12;The Power of the Pigeonhole;180
13;Strong Laws of Small Primes;194
14;Checker Recreations, Part I;209
15;Checker Recreations, Part II;223
16;Modulo Arithmetic and Hummer's Wicked Witch;235
17;Lavinia Seeks a Room and Other Problems;248
18;The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim;268
19;Parabolas;286
20;Non-Euclidean Geometry;304
21;Voting Mathematics;317
22;A Toroidal Paradox and Other Problems;331
23;Minimal Steiner Trees;344
24;Trivalent Graphs, Snarks, and Boojums;360
25;Index;379