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

Martin Gardner

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"The Mathematical Association of America."
"First edition published as New mathematical diversions from Scientific American, Simon and Schuster, 1966"--T.p. verso.

Contents

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.

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Sphere packing, Lewis Carroll, and reversi : Martin Gardner's new mathematical diversions by Martin Gardner. ISBN 9780521747011. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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