Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi
Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games

The first of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.

Martin Gardner (Author)

9780521756150, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 September 2008

208 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg

'I believe that many readers will enjoy the book with great pleasure.' EMS Newsletter

Paradoxes and paper-folding, Moebius variations and mnemonics, fallacies, magic squares, topological curiosities, parlor tricks, and games ancient and modern, from Polyominoes, Nim, Hex, and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensional ticktacktoe. These mathematical recreations, clearly and cleverly presented by Martin Gardner, delight and perplex while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics. Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi is the inaugural volume in Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Library. 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.

1. Hexaflexagons
2. Magic with a matrix
3. Nine problems
4. Ticktacktoe
5. Probability paradoxes
6. The icosian game and the Tower of Hanoi
7. Curious topological models
8. The game of hex
9. Sam Loyd: America's greatest puzzlist
10. Mathematical card tricks
11. Memorizing numbers
12. Nine more problems
13. Polyominoes
14. Fallacies
15. Nim and tac tix
16. Left or right.

Subject Areas: Popular science [PDZ], Mathematics [PB]