Penrose Tiles To Trapdoor Ciphers
by Martin Gardner /
1988 / English / DjVu
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Table of Contents
Preface ix
chapter I Penrose Tiling 1
chapter 2 Penrose Tiling II 19
chapier 3 Mandelbrot's Fractals 31
chapier 4 Conway's Surreal Numbers 49
chapter 5 Back from the Klondike and Other Problems
chapter 6 The Oulipo 79
chapter 1 Ihe Oulipo II 95
chapter 8 WythofTs Him 103
chapter 9 Pool-Ball Iriangles and Other Problems
chapter 10 Mathematical Induction and Colored Hats
chapter 1 1 Negative Numbers 151
chapter 12 Cutting Shapes into N Congruent Parts 165
chapter 13 Trapdoor Ciphers 183
chapter 14 Trapdoor Ciphers II 195
chapter 15 Hyperbolas 205
chapter 16 The New Eleusis 219
chapter 11 Ramsey Theory 231
chapter 18 From Burrs to Unocal 249
chapter 19 Sicherman Dice, the Kruskal Count and Other Curiosities 265
chapter 20 Raymond Smullyan's logic Puzzles 281
chapter 21 The Return of Dr. Matrix 293
Name Index 307