Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi ... - 9780521756150

Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of HanoiMartin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games\nAuthor(s): Martin Gardner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521756150, 978-0521756150\nSynopsis\nParadoxes 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 chal.