The mathematics of various entertaining subjects Research in recreational math / [online] : Jennifer Beineke, Jason Rosenhouse - New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016 - 1 resursă online (288 p.)

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


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