Author | Gardner, Martin. author |
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Title | The Last Recreations [electronic resource] : Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications / by Martin Gardner |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30389-5 |
Descript | X, 392 p. online resource |
1 The Wonders of a Planiverse -- 2 Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks -- 3 Fun with Eggs, Part I -- 4 Fun with Eggs, Part II -- 5 The Topology of Knots -- 6 M-Pire Maps -- 7 Directed Graphs and Cannibals -- 8 Dinner Guests, Schoolgirls, and Handcuffed Prisoners -- 9 The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups -- 10 Taxicab Geometry -- 11 The Power of the Pigeonhole -- 12 Strong Laws of Small Primes -- 13 Checker Recreations, Part I -- 14 Checker Recreations, Part II -- 15 Modulo Arithmetic and Hummerโs Wicked Witch -- 16 Lavinia Seeks a Room and Other Problems -- 17 The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim -- 18 Parabolas -- 19 Non-Euclidean Geometry -- 20 Voting Mathematics -- 21 A Toroidal Paradox and Other Problems -- 22 Minimal Steiner Trees -- 23 Trivalent Graphs, Snarks, and Boojums