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Sphere packing, Lewis Carroll, and reversi: Martin Gardner's new mathematical diversions

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library; 3Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009Description: xiv, 282 pISBN:
  • 9780521747011
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.74 G2S7
Summary: Packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. These and other mathematical diversions return to readers with updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries. Read about Knuth’s Word Ladders program and the latest developments in the digits of pi. Once again these timeless puzzles will charm readers while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics.
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Packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. These and other mathematical diversions return to readers with updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries. Read about Knuth’s Word Ladders program and the latest developments in the digits of pi. Once again these timeless puzzles will charm readers while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics.

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