عنوان

Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century /

شابک

0883859130

شابک

9780883859131

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Martin Gardner in the twenty-first century /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 297 :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

26 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

I. Geometry. The asymmetric propeller / Martin Gardner ; The asymmetric propeller revisited / Gillian Saenz ... [et al.] ; 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 -- II. Number theory and graph theory. 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 ... [et al.] -- III. Flexagons and Catalan numbers. 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 -- IV. Making things fit. 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 -- V. Further puzzles and games. 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 -- VI. Cards and probability. 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 -- VII. Other aspects of Martin Gardner. 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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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

موضوع مستند نشده

Gardner, Martin,1914-2010

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Henle, Michael

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hopkins, Brian

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Mathematical Association of America

تاريخ عمليات

20130720114256.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y