Hexaflexagons and other mathematical diversions : the first Scientific American book of puzzles & games

Author(s)

• Gardner, Martin

Bibliographic Information

Hexaflexagons and other mathematical diversions : the first Scientific American book of puzzles & games

Martin Gardner ; with a new afterword by the author, and an extensive new bibliography

University of Chicago Press, c1988

University of Chicago Press ed

• : pbk

Note

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"

Bibliography: p. 187-200

Details

• NCID: BA04817220
• ISBN:
  • 0226282546
• LCCN: 88017137
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 200 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA95
  • DC19 : 793.7/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mathematical recreations