Mathematical carnival

Martin Gardner9780883854488, 0-88-385-448-1

Table of contents :
HOME……Page 1
CONTENTS……Page 11
Introduction……Page 15
Sprouts and Brussel Sprouts……Page 17
Penny Puzzles……Page 26
Aleph-null and Aleph-one……Page 41
Hypercubes……Page 55
Magic Stars and Polyhedrons……Page 69
Calculating Prodigies……Page 80
Tricks of Lightning Calculators……Page 91
The Art of M. C. Escher……Page 103
The Red-Faced Cube and Other Problems……Page 117
Card Shuffles……Page 137
Mrs. Perkins’ Quilt and Other Square-Packing Problems……Page 153
The Numerology of Dr. Fliess……Page 164
Random Numbers……Page 175
The Rising Hourglass and Other Physics Puzzles……Page 187
Pascal’s Triangle……Page 208
Jam, Hot, and Other Games……Page 222
Cooks and Quibble-Cooks……Page 240
Piet Hein’s Superellipse……Page 254
How to Trisect an Angle……Page 269
Postscript……Page 280
Bibliography……Page 294