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Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wang, Hua |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | There are 41 articles, 8 by Gardner himself, and the rest by a variety of mathematicians. They are in 7 categories: Geometry, Number theory and Graph theory, Flexagons and Catalan Numbers, Making things Fit, Further Puzzles and Games, Cards and Probability, and Other Aspects of Martin Gardner. Notice that this is an odd way to divide mathematics (e.g., Number theory and Graph Theory in the same category, and that category of equal importance to Flexagons and Catalan Numbers); however, this is what is so wonderful about this book— its a collection of random math of interest and hence need not fit into any preconceived notions. I describe an article from each section, except that I take two from the section Number Theory and Graph Theory. Geometry: Prince Rupert’s Rectangles. Let C be a 1×1×1 cube. Can you pass another 1×1×1 cube through C. You can. Note that this is the same as asking can you slice it and have the slice contain a unit square. The answer is YES and this is a much discussed problem. This chapter generalizes the problem in two ways: higher dimensions, and rectangles (actually the analog of rectangles in higher dimensions). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.5948/upo9781614448013 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/gardner21.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5948/upo9781614448013 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
