Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Diversions

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

Martin Gardner (Author)

9780521735247, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 September 2008

248 pages, 7 b/w illus.
21.5 x 13.9 x 1.3 cm, 0.29 kg

'The ten chapters in this volume are a wonderful part of Martin Gardener's work, each updated with selections from the enormous correspondence he enjoyed with his readers. This collection of Gardener's writing should be a cornerstone of a personal library for mathematicians, teachers and students everywhere.' Mathematical Reviews

Martin Gardner continues to delight. He introduces readers 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. Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube is the second volume in Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Library, based on his enormously popular Scientific American columns. 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, to challenge and fascinate a new generation of readers.

1. The five platonic solids
2. Tetraflexagons
3. Henry Dudeney: England's greatest puzzlist
4. Digital roots
5. Nine problems
6. The soma cube
7. Recreational topology
8. Phi: the golden ratio
9. The monkey and the coconuts
10. Mazes
11. Recreational logic
12. Magic squares
13. James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc.
14. Nine more problems
15. Eleusis: the induction game
16. Origami
17. Squaring the square
18. Mechanical puzzles
19. Probability and ambiguity
20. The mysterious Dr Matrix.

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