Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions & Other Mathematical Sleight-of-mind from Scientific American

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Knopf, 1977 - Mathematics - 284 pages
How do you move two matches - and only two - to new positions, so that the glass is reformed in a different position, with the cherry outside?

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Contents

Introduction
9
Nothing
15
More Ado About Nothing
29
Copyright

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Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

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