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SPHERE PACKING, LEWIS CARROLL, AND REVERSI
MARTIN GARDNER'S NEW MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS |
| By: |
Martin Gardner |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521747015 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521747011 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 July, 2009 |
| Series: |
The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library 3 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
The latest on packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, digits of pi, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. |
| Synopsis: |
Packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. These and other mathematical diversions return to readers with updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries. Read about Knuth's Word Ladders program and the latest developments in the digits of pi. Once again these timeless puzzles will charm readers while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics. |
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130 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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