Description |
xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296), webography (p. 287) and index. |
Contents |
The lore and the lure of dice -- Pursuing polygonal privacy -- Making winning connections -- Jumping champions -- Walking with quadrupeds -- Tiling space with knots -- Forward to the future 1: Trapped in time! -- Forward to the future 2: Holes : black, white, and worm -- Forward to the future 3: Back to the past, with interest... -- Cone with a twist -- What shape is a teardrop? -- The interrogator's fallacy -- Cows in the maze -- Knight's tours on rectangles -- Cat's cradle calculus challenge -- Glass Klein bottles -- Cementing relationships -- Knotting ventured, knotting gained -- Most-perfect magic squares -- It can't be done! -- Dances with dodecahedra. |
Subject |
Mathematical recreations.
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Mathematics -- Popular works.
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Cover Title |
Cows in the maze and other mathematical explorations |
ISBN |
9780199562077 (pbk.) |
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0199562075 |
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