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The Tower of Hanoi - Myths and Maths

This is the first comprehensive monograph on the mathematical theory of the solitaire game "The Tower of Hanoi" which was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. The book comprises a survey of the historical development from the game's predecessors u...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hinz, Andreas M. (Autor), Klavžar, Sandi (Autor), Milutinović, Uroš (Autor), Petr, Ciril (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Foreword by Ian Stewart -- Preface -- 0 The Beginning of the World -- 1 The Chinese Rings -- 2 The Classical Tower of Hanoi -- 3 Lucas's Second Problem -- 4 Sierpinski Graphs -- 5 The Tower of Hanoi with More Pegs -- 6 Variations of the Puzzle -- 7 The Tower of London -- 8 Tower of Hanoi Variants with Oriented Disc Moves -- 9 The End of the World -- A Hints and Solutions to Exercises -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Symbol Index. 
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