Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-Of-Mind from Scientific American
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How do you move two matches - and only two - to new positions, so that the glass is reformed in a different position, with the cherry outside? This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0394726235
ISBN13:9780394726236
Release Date:October 1978
Publisher:Vintage Books USA
Length:284 Pages
Weight:0.69 lbs.
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A Classic of a previous age
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
When I first read this I had no idea that he was starting a type of writing that would catch on. Reading :"Archimedes' Revenge" by Paul Hoffman, I realized that he was using the same techniques that Martin Gardner had. One of Hoffman's examples is the same Möbius band in a new context. The perfect numbers are also in both books as well as a section on strange tiling effects. That the Harter -Heighway dragon was introduced here as well makes the book a classic of the last age of mathematical innocence, before mathematical genealogy took over.
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