Mathematical Diversions
Author | : James Alston Hope Hunter |
Publisher | : New York : Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Alston Hope Hunter |
Publisher | : New York : Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
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Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-10-05 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1470463520 |
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, originally published in 1959, contains the first sixteen columns published in the magazine from 1956-1958. They were reviewed and briefly updated by Gardner for this 1988 edition.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Hayes |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1429938579 |
An Award-Winning Essayist Plies His Craft Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today—a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by such honors as the National Magazine Award for his commemorative Y2K essay titled "Clock of Ages," published in the November/December 1999 issue of The Sciences magazine. (The also-rans that year included Tom Wolfe, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Oliver Sacks.) Hayes's work in this genre has also appeared in such anthologies as The BestAmerican Magazine Writing, The Best American Science and NatureWriting, and The Norton Reader. Here he offers us a selection of his most memorable and accessible pieces—including "Clock of Ages"—embellishing them with an overall, scene-setting preface, reconfigured illustrations, and a refreshingly self-critical "Afterthoughts" section appended to each essay.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780226282503 |
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2008-09-08 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : |
This book of the earliest of Gardner's enormously popular Scientific American columns and puzzles continues to challenge and fascinate readers. Now the author, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 147046358X |
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, first published in 1977, contains columns published in the magazine from 1965-1968. This 1990 MAA edition contains a foreword by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham and a postscript and extended bibliography added by Gardner for this edition.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 1986-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0486252116 |
Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem. Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed. Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all that is needed to solve a puzzle is the ability to think logically and clearly, to be "on the alert for surprising, off-beat angles...that strange hidden factor that everyone else had overlooked." Fully illustrated, this engaging collection will appeal to parents and children, amateur mathematicians, scientists, and students alike, and may, as the author writes, make the reader "want to study the subject in earnest" and explains "some of the inviting paths that wind away from the problems into lusher areas of the mathematical jungle." 65 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Fred Schuh |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2015-11-11 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0486808955 |
Praised for its "exceptionally good value" by the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, this book offers fun-filled insights into many fields of mathematics. The brainteasers include original puzzles as well as new approaches to classic conundrums. A vast assortment of challenges features domino puzzles, the game of noughts and crosses, games of encirclement, sliding movement puzzles, subtraction games, puzzles in mechanics, games with piles of matches, a road puzzle with concentric circles, "Catch the Giant," and much more. Detailed solutions show several methods by which a particular problem may be answered, why one method is preferable, and where the others fail. With numerous worked examples, the clear, step-by-step analyses cover how the problem should be approached, including hints and enumeration of possibilities and determination of probabilities, application of the theory of probability, and evaluation of contingencies and mean values. Readers are certain to improve their puzzle-solving strategies as well as their mathematical skills.