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Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century
 
Edited by: Michael Henle
Brian Hopkins
Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-88385-913-1
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eBook ISBN:  978-1-61444-801-3
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Softcover ISBN:  978-0-88385-913-1
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Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by: Michael Henle
Brian Hopkins
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-88385-913-1
Product Code:  SPEC/75
List Price: $35.00
MAA Member Price: $26.25
AMS Member Price: $26.25
eBook ISBN:  978-1-61444-801-3
Product Code:  SPEC/75.E
List Price: $30.00
MAA Member Price: $22.50
AMS Member Price: $22.50
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-88385-913-1
eBook ISBN:  978-1-61444-801-3
Product Code:  SPEC/75.B
List Price: $65.00 $50.00
MAA Member Price: $48.75 $37.50
AMS Member Price: $48.75 $37.50
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  • Book Details
     
     
    Spectrum
    Volume: 75; 2012; 297 pp

    Martin Gardner enormously expanded the field of recreational mathematics with the Mathematical Games columns he wrote for Scientific American for over 25 years and the more than 70 books he published. He also had a long relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, publishing articles in MAA journals right up to his death in 2010. This book collects the articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999 to 2012 that spring from and comment on his work.
  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Geometry
    • The Asymmetric Propeller
    • The Asymmetric Propeller Revisited
    • Bracing Regular Polygons As We Race into the Future
    • A Platonic Sextet for Strings
    • Prince Rupert’s Rectangles
    • Number Theory and Graph Theory
    • Transcendentals and Early Birds
    • Squaring, Cubing, and Cube Rooting
    • Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10
    • Mad Tea Party Cyclic Partitions
    • The Continuing Saga of Snarks
    • The Map-Coloring Game
    • Flexagons and Catalon Numbers
    • It’s Okay to Be Square If You’re a Flexagon
    • The V-flex, Triangle Orientation, and Catalan Numbers in Hexaflexagons
    • From Hexaflexagons to Edge Flexagons to Point Flexagons
    • Flexagons Lead to a Catalan Number Identity
    • Convergence of a Catalan Series
    • Making Things Fit
    • L-Tromino Tiling of Mutilated Chessboards
    • Polyomino Dissections
    • Squaring the Plane
    • Magic Knight’s Tours
    • Some New Results on Magic Hexagrams
    • Finding All Solutions to the Magic Hexagram
    • Triangular Numbers, Gaussian Integers, and KenKen
    • Further Puzzles and Games
    • Cups and Downs
    • 30 Years of Bulgarian Solitaire
    • Congo Bongo
    • Sam Loyd’s Courier Problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras, and Martin Gardner
    • Retrolife and The Pawns Neighbors
    • Ratwyt
    • Cards and Probability
    • Modeling Mathematics with Playing Cards
    • The Probability an Amazing Card Trick Is Dull
    • The Monty Hall Problem, Reconsidered
    • The Secretary Problem from the Applicant’s Point of View
    • Lake Wobegon Dice
    • Martin Gardner’s Mistake
    • Other Aspects of Martin Gardner
    • Against the Odds
    • A Modular Miracle
    • The Golden Ratio—A Contrary Viewpoint
    • Review of The Mysterious Mr. Ammann by Marjorie Senechal
    • Review of PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
    • Superstrings and Thelma
  • Requests
     
     
    Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
    Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
Spectrum
Volume: 75; 2012; 297 pp

Martin Gardner enormously expanded the field of recreational mathematics with the Mathematical Games columns he wrote for Scientific American for over 25 years and the more than 70 books he published. He also had a long relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, publishing articles in MAA journals right up to his death in 2010. This book collects the articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999 to 2012 that spring from and comment on his work.
  • Geometry
  • The Asymmetric Propeller
  • The Asymmetric Propeller Revisited
  • Bracing Regular Polygons As We Race into the Future
  • A Platonic Sextet for Strings
  • Prince Rupert’s Rectangles
  • Number Theory and Graph Theory
  • Transcendentals and Early Birds
  • Squaring, Cubing, and Cube Rooting
  • Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10
  • Mad Tea Party Cyclic Partitions
  • The Continuing Saga of Snarks
  • The Map-Coloring Game
  • Flexagons and Catalon Numbers
  • It’s Okay to Be Square If You’re a Flexagon
  • The V-flex, Triangle Orientation, and Catalan Numbers in Hexaflexagons
  • From Hexaflexagons to Edge Flexagons to Point Flexagons
  • Flexagons Lead to a Catalan Number Identity
  • Convergence of a Catalan Series
  • Making Things Fit
  • L-Tromino Tiling of Mutilated Chessboards
  • Polyomino Dissections
  • Squaring the Plane
  • Magic Knight’s Tours
  • Some New Results on Magic Hexagrams
  • Finding All Solutions to the Magic Hexagram
  • Triangular Numbers, Gaussian Integers, and KenKen
  • Further Puzzles and Games
  • Cups and Downs
  • 30 Years of Bulgarian Solitaire
  • Congo Bongo
  • Sam Loyd’s Courier Problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras, and Martin Gardner
  • Retrolife and The Pawns Neighbors
  • Ratwyt
  • Cards and Probability
  • Modeling Mathematics with Playing Cards
  • The Probability an Amazing Card Trick Is Dull
  • The Monty Hall Problem, Reconsidered
  • The Secretary Problem from the Applicant’s Point of View
  • Lake Wobegon Dice
  • Martin Gardner’s Mistake
  • Other Aspects of Martin Gardner
  • Against the Odds
  • A Modular Miracle
  • The Golden Ratio—A Contrary Viewpoint
  • Review of The Mysterious Mr. Ammann by Marjorie Senechal
  • Review of PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
  • Superstrings and Thelma
Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
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