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Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments

Другие названия: Knotted Donuts, Napier’s Bones, and Gray Codes: Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Entertainments

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Данный сборник содержит статьи, опубликованные в колонке в 1972–1974 гг.


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  • Coincidence  [= Why the long arm of coincidence is usually not as long as it seems] (1972)  
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  • The Binary Gray Code  [= The curious properties of the Gray code and how it can be used to solve puzzles] (1972)  
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  • Polycubes  [= Pleasurable problems with polycubes, and the winning strategy for Slither] (1972)  
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  • Bacon's Cipher  [= On the practical uses and bizarre abuses of Sir Francis Bacon's biliteral cipher] (1972)  
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  • Napier's Bones  [= The calculating rods of John Napier, the eccentric father of the logarithm] (1973)  
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  • Napier's Abacus  [= How to turn a chessboard into a computer and to calculate with negabinary numbers] (1973)  
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  • Elevators  [= Up-and-down elevator games and Piet Rein's mechanical puzzles] (1973)  
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  • Crossing Numbers  [= Plotting the crossing number of graphs, and answers to last month's miscellany] (1973)  
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  • Point Sets on the Sphere  [= Problems on the surface of a sphere offer an entertaining introduction to point sets] (1973)  
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  • Newcomb's Paradox  [= Free will revisited, with a mind-bending prediction paradox by William Newcomb] (1973)  
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  • Reflections on Newcomb's Paradox  [= Reflections on Newcomb's problem: a prediction and free-will dilemma] (1974) // Соавтор: Роберт Нозик  
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  • Look-See Proofs  [= "Look-see" diagrams that offer visual proof of complex algebraic formulas] (1973)  
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  • Worm Paths  [= Fantastic patterns traced by programmed "worms"] (1973)  
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  • Waring's Problems  [= On expressing integers as the sum of cubes and other unsolved number-theory problems] (1973)  
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  • The I Ching  [= The combinatorial basis of the “I Ching,” the Chinese book of divination and wisdom] (1974)  
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  • The Laffer Curve  [= The Laffer curve and other laughs in current economics] (1981)  
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