Hexaflexagons and other mathematical diversions
Subtitle: the first Scientific American book of puzzles & games
By: Martin Gardner, with a new afterword by the author.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Mathematical recreations.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 187-200.
Reprint. Originally published: The Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1959.
"Paradoxes and paperfolding, Moebius variations and mnemonics, fallacies, brain-teasers, magic squares, topological curiosities, probability, and a variety of ancient and new problems, from polyominoes and hex to four-dimensional ticktacktoe, and including, of course, solutions."