Fractal Music, Hypercards and More--: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American Magazine
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Book Overview
This is a collection of informative extracts from Gardners' "Scientific American" column. Each brain-teasing article has been updated to include new mists, new ideas, and new solutions. Highlights... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0716721899
ISBN13:9780716721895
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:W.H. Freeman & Company
Length:327 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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profound masterpiece
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Martin Garner is a genius, no doubt. However, he left no contact information for readers to report math errors. On page 156, Figure 68, I hold the proof that 10 circles can be packed to a 3.81 density. In a clever disclaimer, at least Martin admits on the same page, that proofs exist for 1-9, but not 10. Martin, if you want my solution for 10 circles, [email protected] is my contact info.
Another work from the master of explaining mathematics
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book is another pillar holding up the banner that proclaims the author to be `the most ubiquitous man in the most ubiquitous of fields." He seems to have no mathematical weaknesses, attacking and explaining every topic with charm, wit, grace and thoroughness. It there is such a thing as mathematical savoir-faire, Martin Gardner possesses it. In this work, Dr. Gardner explains fractal music, the Bell numbers and their uses, Egyptian fractions, packing circles and squares, mathematical chess problems, imaginary numbers, and tangent circles. He also discusses the career of Charles Saunders Pierce and the book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter. Negative comments on minimal sculpture and psychic research methods are also included. Informative as well as entertaining, the works of this author should be part of every liberal education. Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.
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