Title: Hidden connections, double meanings /
Authors: Wells, D. G.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: Introduction -- Exploding the image -- The hidden image -- Crystals -- Circles and ellipses -- Skeleton and structure -- Taking the wider view -- Invariants -- Special cases -- Summing up -- Metaphors -- One problem, many solutions -- Pictures into numbers -- A point of balance -- Multiple meanings -- Matching problems -- The game of algebra -- Pattern and illusion -- Clarity, proof and certainty -- Hints for solutions to problems -- Solutions to problems.
Subject headings (LCSH): Mathematical recreations.; Problem solving.; Puzzles and games