Gardner's workout

Training the mind and entertaining the spirit

Martin Gardner

330 pages, parution le 27/09/2002

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Martin Gardner, the Master of Mathematical Games and Puzzles, has introduced a wide range of readers to the world of recreational mathematics over the past decades, and charmed his way into their hearts with his enthusiasm for the subject. Perhaps best known as the author of Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column for 25 years, Gardner has gained a large following among puzzlers, magicians, and mathematicians.

In the years since, Gardner has continued to write articles for academic journals and popular magazines. Forty-one of those pieces, never before published in book form, are collected in this volume.

Truly a treat for Martin Gardner's many fans, the articles span a wide range of topics. They include games of chance (and why a "computer" will always beat a human player), word ladders and mathematical word play games, tiling puzzles, magic squares, computer and calculator "magic" tricks, and other mathematical puzzles. Providing the tools to furnish our all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout, Gardner's problems foster an agility of the mind as they entertain

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Part I
- The Opaque Cube
- The Square Root of 2 = 1.414 213 562 373 095 ...
- Flip, the Psychic Robot
- The Propositional Calculus with Directed Graphs
- Mathematics and Wordplay
- Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard
- Tiling the Bent Tromino
- Covering a Cube with Congruent Polygons
- Magic Tricks on a Computer
- Variations in the 12345679 Trick
- More Calculator Whimsies
- Kasparov's Defeat by Deep Blue
- Computers Near the Threshold?
- Cornering the King
- Toroidal Currency
- Six Challenging Dissection Tasks
- Lewis Carroll's Pillow-Problems
- Lewis Carroll's Word Ladders
- The Ant of 1 x 1 x 2
- Three-Point Tiling
- Lucky Numbers and 2187
- 3 x 3 Magic Squares
- Some New Discoveries about 3 x 3 Magic Squares
- Primes in Arithmetic Progression
- Prime Magic Squares
- The Dominono Game
- The Growth of Recreational Mathematics
- Maximum Inscribed Squares, Rectangles, and
- Triangles
- Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees
- Around the Solar System
- Ten Amazing Mathematical Tricks
- Modeling Mathematics with Playing Cards
- The Asymmetric Propeller Theorem
- Chess Queens and Maximum Unattacked Cells
Part II
- Lion Hunting
- Two Books of Infinity
- The Universe and the Teacup
- A New Result on Perfect Magic Squares
- The Number Devil
- Probability 1
- Fuzzy New New Math

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	AK Peters
Auteur(s)	Martin Gardner
Parution	27/09/2002
Nb. de pages	330
Format	15, 5 x 23, 5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	664g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781568811208
ISBN13	978-1-56881-120-8