Aha! Insight 071671017X, 9780716710172


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Table of contents :
HOME......Page 0
CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Time Travel......Page 11
Hexes and Stars......Page 25
Tangrams, Part 1......Page 36
Tangrams, Part 2......Page 47
Nontransitive Paradoxes......Page 63
Combinatorial Card Problems......Page 78
Melody-Making Machines......Page 92
Anarnorphic Art......Page 104
The Rubber Rope and Other Problerns......Page 117
Six Sensational Discoveries......Page 131
The Csaszar Polyhedron......Page 145
Dodgem and Other Simple Games......Page 159
Tiling with Convex Polygons......Page 169
Tiling with Polyominoes, Polyiarnonds, and Polyhexes......Page 183
Curious Maps......Page 194
The Sixth Symbol and Other Problems......Page 209
Magic Squares and Cubes......Page 217
Block Packing......Page 230
Induction and Probability......Page 243
Catalan Numbers......Page 254
Fun with a Pocket Calculator......Page 268
Tree-Plant Problems......Page 278
Index of Names......Page 292

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