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Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century /
"This book collects articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999-2012 that spring from and comment on his work"--Cover
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Washington, DC] :
Mathematical Association of America,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The asymmetric propeller / Martin Gardner
- The asymmetric propeller revisited / Gillian Saenz, Christopher Lackson, and Ryan Crumley
- Bracing regular polygons as we race into the future / Greg W. Frederickson
- A platonic sextet for strings / Karl Schaffer
- Prince Rupert's rectangles / Richard P. Jerrard and John E. Wetzel
- Transcendentals and early birds / Martin Gardner
- Squaring, cubing and cube rooting / Arthur T. Benjamin
- Carryless arithmetic mod 10 / David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, and N.J.A. Sloane
- Mad tea party cyclic partitions / Robert Bekes, Jean Pedersen, and Bin Sha
- The continuing saga of snarks / Sarah-Marie Belcastro
- The map-coloring game / Tomasz Bartnicki, Jaroslaw Grytczuk, H.A. Kierstead, and Xuding Zhu
- It's okay to be square if you're a flexagon / Ethan J. Berkove and Jeffrey P. Dumont
- The V-flex, triangle orientation, and Catalan numbers in hexaflexagons / Ionut E. Iacob, T. Bruce McLean, and Hua Wang
- From hexaflexagons to edge flexagons to point flexagons / Les Pook
- Flexagons lead to a Catalan number identity / David Callan
- Convergence of a Catalan series / Thomas Koshy and Z. Gao
- L-tromino tiling of mutilated chessboards / Martin Gardner
- Polyomino dissections / Tiina Hohn and Andy Liu
- Squaring the plane / Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle
- Magic knight's tours / John Beasley
- Some new results on magic hexagrams / Martin Gardner
- Finding all solutions to the magic hexagram / Alexander Karabegov and Jason Holland
- Triangular numbers, Gaussian integers, and KenKen / John J. Watkins
- Cups and downs / Ian Stewart
- 30 years of Bulgarian solitaire / Brian Hopkins
- Congo bongo / Hsin-Po Wang
- Sam Loyd's courier problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras, and Martin Gardner / Owen O'Shea
- Retrolife and the pawns neighbors / Yossi Elran
- RATWYT / Aviezri Fraenkel
- Modeling mathematics with playing cards / Martin Gardner
- The probability an amazing card trick is dull / Christopher N. Swanson
- The Monty Hall problem, reconsidered / Stephen Lucas, Jason Rosenhouse, and Andrew Schepler
- The secretary problem from the applicant's point of view / Darren Glass
- Lake Wobegon dice / Jorge Moraleda and David G. Stork
- Martin Gardner's mistake / Tanya Khovanova
- Against the odds / Martin Gardner
- A modular miracle / John Stillwell
- The golden ratio: a contrary viewpoint / Clement Falbo
- Review of The mysterious Mr. Ammann by Marjorie Senechal / Philip Straffin
- Review of PopCo by Scarlett Thomas / Martin Gardner
- Superstrings and Thelma / Martin Gardner