/LC.GIF&client=easterncarolinaedu)
Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma cube : Martin Gardner's mathematical diversions / Martin Gardner.
| Author/creator | Gardner, Martin |
| Other author | Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010. |
| Other author | Mathematical Association of America. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | The new Martin Gardner mathematical library ; 2 Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010. New Martin Gardner mathematical library ; 2. ^A787674 |
| Contents | The five platonic solids -- Tetraflexagons -- Henry Ernest Dudeney : England's greatest puzzlist -- Digital roots -- Nine problems -- The Soma cube -- Recreational topology -- Phi : the golden ratio -- The monkey and the coconuts -- Mazes -- Recreational logic -- Magic squares -- James Hugh Riley shows, Inc. -- Nine more problems -- Eleusis : the introduction game -- Origami -- Squaring the square -- Mechanical puzzles -- Probability and ambiguity -- The mysterious Dr. Matrix. |
| General note | "The Mathematical Association of America." |
| General note | "First edition published as The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, Simon and Schuster, 1961"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008012534 |
| ISBN | 9780521756105 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521756103 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521735247 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521735246 (pbk.) |