Mathematical Carnival: From Penny Puzzles, Card Shuffles and Tricks of Lightning Calculators to Roller Coaster Rides Into the Fourth Dimension |
Contents
Penny Puzzles | 12 |
Alephnull and Alephone | 27 |
Hypercubes | 41 |
Copyright | |
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Aitken aleph aleph-null aleph-one angle answer apex asked binary Biorhythm bottom calculators called Cantor cell chain circle coins compass and straightedge Conway corner cube curve cycle decimal diagonal digital root digits divide Dudeney edges Escher exponent face faro shuffles finite Fliess formula four four-space fraction Freud geometry glass graph hexomino hourglass hypercube in-shuffles infinite number infinity inside integers intersection John Horton Conway kayles line segment loop magic square mathematical mathematicians minimum moves multiplier nine obtained out-shuffles Pascal's triangle pattern pennies pentagram Piet Hein plane play points polycube possible problem procedure proof puzzle random numbers reader rectangle rotation Sam Loyd Scientific American second player sequence shown in Figure side solution spot sprouts squad car starting position subset superegg superellipse tesseract theory three-space ticktacktoe tion top card triangular trick trisected tube turn zero