The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions
Subtitle: a new selection.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Mathematical recreations.
Other titles: Mathematical puzzles & diversions.; Second Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions.
Description: Mathematical puzzles from origami to recreational logic, from digital roots and dudeny puzzles to the diabolic square, from the golden ratio to the generalized ham sandwish theorem.
Table of contents: title: The five platonic solids [Answers on page 22] -- Tetraflexagons -- Henry Ernest Dudeney : England’s greatest puzzlist [Answers on page 41] -- Digital roots [Answers on page 50] -- Nine problems [Answers on page 56] -- The soma cube [Answers on page 77] -- Recreational topology [Answers on page 88] -- Phi : the golden ratio [Answers on page 102] -- The monkey and the coconuts [Answers on page 110] -- Mazes -- Recreational logic [Answers on page 127] -- Magic squares -- James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc. [Answers on page 149] -- Nine more problems [Answers on page 156] -- Eleusis : the induction game [Answers on page 172] -- Origami [Answers on page 184] -- Squaring the square -- Mechanical puzzles -- [Answers on page 218] -- Probability and ambiguity [Answers on page 229] -- The mysterious Dr. Matrix [Answers on page 242].