Displaying 1 of 1 1986 Format: Book Author: Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010. Title: Knotted doughnuts and other mathematical entertainments / Martin Gardner. Publisher, Date: New York : W.H. Freeman, ©1986. Description: xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: Introduces puzzles and math problems involving coincidence, ciphers, games, the I Ching, geometric figures, and paradoxes. Subjects: Mathematical recreations. Genre: Puzzles and games. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Coincidence -- The binary gray code -- Polycubes -- Bacon's cipher -- Doughnuts : linked and knotted -- The tour of the arrows and other problems -- Napier's bones -- Napier's abacus -- Sim, chomp and racetrack -- Elevators -- Crossing numbers -- Point sets on the sphere -- Newcomb's paradox -- Reflections on Newcomb's paradox -- Reverse the fish and other problems -- Look see proofs -- Worm paths -- Waring's problems -- Cram, bynum and quadraphage -- The I ching -- The Laffer curve. Web Site: Table of contents LCCN: 85031134 ISBN: 0716717999 9780716717997 0716717948 9780716717942 Other Number: 13007875 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 17104 # 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
