The unexpected hanging and other mathematical diversions : with a new afterword and expanded bibliography
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The unexpected hanging and other mathematical diversions : with a new afterword and expanded bibliography
University of Chicago Press, 1991
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The unexpected hanging
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Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1969
Fifth book of Mathematical games column author wrote for Scientific American
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263)
"University of Chicago Press edition 1991"
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Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambling odds. "Gardner conjures problems that are both profound and silly; exquisite truths and outrageous absurdities; paradoxes, anagrams, palindromes and party tricks...He knows, better than most, how many amazing true things there are in the world."--Newsweek
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