The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects : : Research in Recreational Math / / ed. by Jennifer Beineke, Jason Rosenhouse.

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 50 color illus. 20 halftones. 80 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Vignettes
  • 1. Should You Be Happy?
  • 2. One-Move Puzzles with Mathematical Content
  • 3. Minimalist Approaches to Figurative Maze Design
  • 4. Some ABCs of Graphs and Games
  • Part II. Problems Inspired by Classic Puzzles
  • 5. Solving the Tower of Hanoi with Random Moves
  • 6. Groups Associated to Tetraflexagons
  • 7. Parallel Weighings of Coins
  • 8. Analysis of Crossword Puzzle Difficulty Using a Random Graph Process
  • 9. From the Outside In
  • Part III. Playing Cards
  • 10. Gallia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Quattuor
  • 11. Heartless Poker
  • 12. An Introduction to Gilbreath Numbers
  • Part IV. Games
  • 13. Tic-tac-toe on Affine Planes
  • 14. Error Detection and Correction Using SET
  • 15. Connection Games and Sperner's Lemma
  • Part V. Fibonacci Numbers
  • 16. The Cookie Monster Problem
  • 17. Representing Numbers Using Fibonacci Variants
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Index