Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers: And the Return of Dr Matrix [Revised] 0883855216, 9780883855218

Here is another collection drawn from Martin Gardner's 'Mathematical Games' column in Scientific American

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Table of contents :
HOME......Page 0
CONTENTS......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Penrose Tiling......Page 11
Penrose Tiling II......Page 29
Mandelbrot's Fractals......Page 41
Conway's Surreal Numbers......Page 59
Back from the Klondike and Other Problems......Page 73
The Oulipo......Page 88
The Oulipo II......Page 103
Wythoff's Nim......Page 111
Pool-Ball Triangles and 0ther Problems......Page 127
Mathematical Induction and Colored Hats......Page 145
Negative Numbers......Page 158
Cutting Shapes into N Congruent Putts......Page 171
Trapdoor Ciphers......Page 192
Trapdoor Ciphers II......Page 203
Hyperbolas......Page 213
The New Eleusis......Page 227
Ramsey Theory......Page 238
From Burrs to Berrocal......Page 255
Sicherman Dice, the Kruskal Count and 0ther Curiosities......Page 271
Raymond Smullyan's Logic Puzzles......Page 287
The Return of Dr. Matrix......Page 299
Postscript......Page 313
Name Index......Page 321

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