Displaying 1 of 1 1991 Format: Book Author: Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010. Title: The unexpected hanging, and other mathematical diversions : with a new afterword and expanded bibliography / Martin Gardner. Edition: University of Chicago Press ed. Publisher, Date: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991. Description: 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Subjects: Mathematical recreations. Notes: Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1969. Fifth book of Mathematical games column author wrote for Scientific American. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263). Contents: Machine derived contents note: Note to the 1991 Edition -- 1. The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging -- 2. Knots and Borromean Rings -- 3. The Transcendental Number e -- 4. Geometric Dissections -- 5. Scarne on Gambling -- 6. The Church of the Fourth Dimension -- 7. Eight Problems -- 8. A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine -- 9. Spirals -- 10. Rotations and Reflections -- 11. Peg Solitaire -- 12. Flatlands -- 13. Chicago Magic Convention -- 14. Tests of Divisibility -- 15. Nine Problems -- 16. The Eight Queens and Other Chessboard Diversions -- 17. A Loop of String -- 18. Curves of Constant Width -- 19. Rep-Tiles: Replicating Figures on the Plane -- 20. Thirty-Seven Catch Questions -- Afterword -- Bibliography. Web Site: Table of contents Publisher description LCCN: 91017723 ISBN: 0226282562 9780226282565 Other Number: 23690329 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 107745 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 793.74 Gardner Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
