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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1 The Binary System 1
2 Group Theory and Braids 11
3 Eight Problems 23
4 The Games and Puzzles of Lewis Carroll 38
5 Paper Cutting 51
6 Board Games 64
7 Packing Spheres 80
8 The Transcendental Number Π 91
9 Victor Eigen: Mathemagician 106
10 The Four-Color Map Theorem 118
11 Mr. Apollinax Visits New York 132
12 Nine Problems 142
13 Polyominoes and Fault-Free Rectangles 160
14 Euler's Spoilers: The Discovery of an Order-10 Graeco-Latin Square 175
15 The Ellipse 189
16 The 24 Color Squares and the 30 Color Cubes 202
17 H. S. M. Coxeter 216
18 Bridg-it and Other Games 232
19 Nine More Problems 241
20 The Calculus of Finite Differences 261
Index 275
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Victor Paragua
reviewed Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll and Reversi on January 28, 2015 Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll and Reversi
If there were a mathematics of watching paint dry, Martin Gardner would make it interesting. Without peer as a popularizer of mathematics, he is equally adept at explaining all areas. This book, another updated collection of his Scientific American columns, is a twenty member set of polished pearls. Although somewhat mundane as a descriptive adjective, the word readable fits his writing like a custom made body stocking.
Always interesting and entertaining, reading his essays is somewhat like eating tiny chocolate bars. You can't get enough, each seems too small, and there are no negative side effects.
Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission and this review appears on Amazon.
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