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Hexaflexagons, probability paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi : Martin Gardner's first book of mathematical puzzles and games
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- Creator
- Martin Gardner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- [Second edition]
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521735254, 0521735254
- OCLC
- ocn213495403
- "The Mathematical Association of America."
- "First edition published as The Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, Simon and Schuster, 1959"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Hexaflexagons -- Magic with a matrix -- Nine problems -- Ticktacktoe -- Probability paradoxes -- The icosian game and the Tower of Hanoi -- Curious topological models -- The game of hex -- Sam Loyd : America's greatest puzzlist -- Mathematical card tricks -- Memorizing numbers -- Nine more problems -- Polyominoes -- Fallacies -- Nim and tac tix -- Left or right?