| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The asymmetric propeller / Martin Gardner -- The asymmetric propeller revisited / Gillian Saenz, Christopher Lackson, and Ryan Crumley -- Bracing regular polygons as we race into the future / Greg W. Frederickson -- A platonic sextet for strings / Karl Schaffer -- Prince Rupert's rectangles / Richard P. Jerrard and John E. Wetzel -- Transcendentals and early birds / Martin Gardner -- Squaring, cubing and cube rooting / Arthur T. Benjamin -- Carryless arithmetic mod 10 / David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, and N.J.A. Sloane -- Mad tea party cyclic partitions / Robert Bekes, Jean Pedersen, and Bin Sha -- The continuing saga of snarks / Sarah-Marie Belcastro -- The map-coloring game / Tomasz Bartnicki, Jaroslaw Grytczuk, H.A. Kierstead, and Xuding Zhu -- It's okay to be square if you're a flexagon / Ethan J. Berkove and Jeffrey P. Dumont -- The V-flex, triangle orientation, and Catalan numbers in hexaflexagons / Ionut E. Iacob, T. Bruce McLean, and Hua Wang -- From hexaflexagons to edge flexagons to point flexagons / Les Pook -- Flexagons lead to a Catalan number identity / David Callan -- Convergence of a Catalan series / Thomas Koshy and Z. Gao -- L-tromino tiling of mutilated chessboards / Martin Gardner -- Polyomino dissections / Tiina Hohn and Andy Liu -- Squaring the plane / Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle -- Magic knight's tours / John Beasley -- Some new results on magic hexagrams / Martin Gardner -- Finding all solutions to the magic hexagram / Alexander Karabegov and Jason Holland -- Triangular numbers, Gaussian integers, and KenKen / John J. Watkins -- Cups and downs / Ian Stewart -- 30 years of Bulgarian solitaire / Brian Hopkins -- Congo bongo / Hsin-Po Wang -- Sam Loyd's courier problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras, and Martin Gardner / Owen O'Shea -- Retrolife and the pawns neighbors / Yossi Elran -- RATWYT / Aviezri Fraenkel -- Modeling mathematics with playing cards / Martin Gardner -- The probability an amazing card trick is dull / Christopher N. Swanson -- The Monty Hall problem, reconsidered / Stephen Lucas, Jason Rosenhouse, and Andrew Schepler -- The secretary problem from the applicant's point of view / Darren Glass -- Lake Wobegon dice / Jorge Moraleda and David G. Stork -- Martin Gardner's mistake / Tanya Khovanova -- Against the odds / Martin Gardner -- A modular miracle / John Stillwell -- The golden ratio: a contrary viewpoint / Clement Falbo -- Review of The mysterious Mr. Ammann by Marjorie Senechal / Philip Straffin -- Review of PopCo by Scarlett Thomas / Martin Gardner -- Superstrings and Thelma / Martin Gardner |
| Summary |
"This book collects articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999-2012 that spring from and comment on his work"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.
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| SUBJECT |
Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010 fast |
| Subject |
Mathematical recreations.
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GAMES -- Sudoku.
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MATHEMATICS -- Recreations & Games.
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MATHEMATICS -- General.
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Mathematical recreations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Henle, Michael, editor
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Hopkins, Brian, editor
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Mathematical Association of America.
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| LC no. |
2012954077 |
| ISBN |
9781614448013 |
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1614448019 |
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