Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games (The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library, Series Number 1)

Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi is the inaugural volume in The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library series. Based off of Gardener's enormously popular Scientific American columns, his puzzles and challenges can now fascinate a whole new generation! Paradoxes and paper-folding, Moebius variations and mnemonics, fallacies, magic square, topological curiosities, parlor tricks, and games ancient and modern, from Polyminoes, Nim, Hex, and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensional ticktacktoe. These mathematical recreations, clearly and cleverly presented by Martin Gardner, delight and perplex while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics. Now the author, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries. Paradoxes and paperfolding, moebius variations and mnemonics, fallacies, brain-teasers, magic squares, topological curiosities, probability and parlor tricks, and a variety of ancient and new games and problems, from polyominoes, nim, hex and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensional ticktacktoe. Together with mathematical commentaries by Mr. Gardner and addenda from readers of Scientific American. Plus bibliographies and, of course, solutions. Hexaflexagons Magic with a matrix Nine problems Ticktacktoe Probability paradoxes The icosian game and the Tower of Hanoi Curious topological models The game of hex Sam Loyd : America's greatest puzzlist Mathematical card tricks Memorizing numbers Nine more problems Polyominoes Fallacies Nim and tac tix Left or right . The mathematical recreations presented here are designed to delight and perplex while demonstrating mathematical principles. The book contains the earliest of Gardner's popular 'Scientific American' columns, now with updated information on new game variations, mathematical proofs and other developments The first of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics