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Sphere packing, Lewis Carroll, and reversi : Martin Gardner's new mathematical diversions
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- Creator
- Martin Gardner
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- Language
- English
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521756075, 0521756073, 9780521747011, 0521747015
- OCLC
- ocn302387125
- "The Mathematical Association of America."
- "First edition published as New mathematical diversions from Scientific American, Simon and Schuster, 1966"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The binary system -- Group theory and braids -- Eight problems -- The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll -- Paper cutting -- Board games -- Packing spheres -- The transcendental number [pi] -- Victor Eigen : mathemagician -- The four-color map theorem -- Mr. Apollinax visits New York -- Nine problems -- Polyominoes and fault-free rectangles -- Euler's spoilers : the discovery of an order-10 Graeco-Latin square -- The ellipse -- The 24 color squares and the 30 color cubes -- H.S.M. Coxeter -- Bridg-it and other games -- Nine more problems -- The calculus of finite differences