TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gardner,Martin
TI  - Knots and borromean rings, rep-tiles, and eight queens :Martin Gardner's unexpected hanging 
T2  - The new Martin Gardner mathematical library
SN  - 9780521758710 (pb)
AV  - QA95 .G267 2014
U1  - 510 GAR/Kno 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mathematical recreations
KW  - MATHEMATICS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. The paradox of the unexpected hanging; 2. Knots and Borromean rings; 3. The transcendental number e; 4. Geometric dissections; 5. Scarne on gambling; 6. The church of the fourth dimension; 7. Eight problems; 8. A matchbox game-learning machine; 9. Spirals; 10. Rotations and reflections; 11. Peg solitaire; 12. Flatlands; 13. Chicago magic convention; 14. Tests of divisibility; 15. Nine problems; 16. The eight queens and other chessboard diversions; 17. A loop of string; 18. Curves of constant width; 19. Rep-tiles: replicating figures in the plane; 20. Thirty-seven catch questions
N2  - "The hangman's paradox, cat's cradle, gambling, peg solitaire, pi and e - all these and more are back in Martin Gardner's inimitable style, with updates on new developments and discoveries. Read about how knots and molecules are related; take a trip into the fourth dimension; try out new dissections of stars, crosses, and polygons; and challenge yourself with new twists on classic games"--
ER  -