Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi: Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521756075)

Packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. These and other mathematical diversions return to readers with updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries. Read about Knuth's Word Ladders program and the latest developments in the digits of pi. Once again these timeless puzzles will charm readers while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other fields of mathematics.

Author: Martin Gardner
ISBN-10: 0521756073
ISBN-13: 9780521756075
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2009
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d