Мартин Гарднер «The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems»

Сборник избранных статей из колонки Mathematical Games в журнале Scientific American.

1. The Monkey and the Coconuts

2. The Calculus of Finite Differences

3. Palindromes: Words and Numbers

4. Curves of Constant Width

5. Rep-Tiles: Replicating Figures on the Plane

6. Piet Hein's Superellipse

7. Penrose Tiling

8. The Wonders of a Planiverse

9. The Helix

10. Packing Spheres

11. Spheres and Hyperspheres

12. The Church of the Fourth Dimension

13. Hypercubes

14. Non-Euclidean Geometry

15. Rotations and Reflections

16. The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim

17. The Art of M.C. Escher

18. Klein Bottles and Other Surfaces

19. The Topology of Knots

20. Doughnuts: Linked and Knotted

21. Probability and Ambiguity

22. Nontransitive Dice and Other Probability Paradoxes

23. Nontransitive Paradoxes

24. Infinite Regress

25. Aleph-Null and Aleph-One

26. Alephs and Supertasks

27. White, Brown and Fractal Music

28. Conway's Surreal Numbers

29. Hexaflexagons

30. The Soma Cube

31. The Game of Life, Part I

32. The Combinatorics of Paper Folding

33. Ramsey Theory

34. Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks

35. A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine

36. Sprouts and Brussels Sprouts

37. Generalized Ticktacktoe

38. The New Eleusis

39. Time Travel

40. Does Time Ever Stop? Can the Past Be Altered?

41. Induction and Probability

42. Simplicity

43. The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging

44. Newcomb's Paradox

45. Nothing

46. Everything

47. Melody-Making Machines

48. Mathematical Zoo

49. Douglas Hofstader's Gödel, Escher, Bach

50. Six Sensational Discoveries