| Product Information |
| "Martin Gardner is quite simply the most captivating, entertaining, and downright accessible mathematics writer the world has ever seen." -KEITH DEVLIN, AUTHOR OF GOODBYE, DESCARTES"A most worthy capstone to a remarkable career as an expositor extraordinaire." -JOHN ALLEN PAULOS, AUTHOR OF A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER"By almost any standard, Gardners contributions to mathematics put him near the top of the profession. His books and articles have probably stimulated more research and inspired more budding mathematicians than the writings and teachings of most entire math departments." -SIAM NEWS |
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| Product Identifiers |
| Publisher | Springer |
| ISBN-10 | 0387258272 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780387258270 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 47845105 |
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| Product Key Features |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Publication Year | 2007 |
| Language | English |
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| Dimensions |
| Weight | 24.1 Oz |
| Width | 6.3in. |
| Length | 9.4in. |
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| Additional Product Features |
| Number of Volumes | 1 Vol. |
| Dewey Edition | 21 |
| Table of Content | 1 The Wonders of a Planiverse.- 2 Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks.- 3 Fun with Eggs, Part I.- 4 Fun with Eggs, Part II.- 5 The Topology of Knots.- 6 M-Pire Maps.- 7 Directed Graphs and Cannibals.- 8 Dinner Guests, Schoolgirls, and Handcuffed Prisoners.- 9 The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups.- 10 Taxicab Geometry.- 11 The Power of the Pigeonhole.- 12 Strong Laws of Small Primes.- 13 Checker Recreations, Part I.- 14 Checker Recreations, Part II.- 15 Modulo Arithmetic and Hummer's Wicked Witch.- 16 Lavinia Seeks a Room and Other Problems.- 17 The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim.- 18 Parabolas.- 19 Non-Euclidean Geometry.- 20 Voting Mathematics.- 21 A Toroidal Paradox and Other Problems.- 22 Minimal Steiner Trees.- 23 Trivalent Graphs, Snarks, and Boojums. |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Dewey Decimal | 793.7/4 |
| Target Audience | Scholarly & Professional |
| Copyright Date | 1997 |
| Author | Martin Gardner |
| Lc Classification Number | Qa1-939 |