Origami Eleusis and the Soma Cube Martin Gardners Mathematical Diversions
Series: New Martin Gardner mathematical library, 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521735247
Description: Martin Gardner continues to delight readers in *Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube*, the second volume in the new Cambridge series, The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library, based off his enormously popular Scientific American columns. Gardner introduces young and old readers alike to the Generalized Ham Sandwich Theorem, origami, digital roots, magic squares, the mathematics of cooling coffee, the induction game of Eleusis, Dudeney puzzles, the maze at Hampton Court Palace, and many more mathematical puzzles and principles. Gardner, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries, to challenge and fascinate a new generation of readers.
Notes: Includes illustrations.
First edition published as *The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions*, Simon and Schuster, 1961"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: The five platonic solids; title: Tetraflexagons; title: Henry Ernest Dudeney : England's greatest puzzlist; title: Digital roots; title: Nine problems; title: The Soma cube; title: Recreational topology; title: Phi: the golden ratio; title: The monkey and the coconuts; title: Mazes; title: Recreational logic; title: Magic squares; title: James Hugh Riley shows, Inc.; title: Nine more problems; title: Eleusis: the introduction game; title: Origami; title: Squaring the square; title: Mechanical puzzles; title: Probability and ambiguity; title: The mysterious Dr. Matrix