Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-Of-Mind from Scientific American

by Martin Gardner

Book Overview

How do you move two matches - and only two - to new positions, so that the glass is reformed in a different position, with the cherry outside?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394408225
• ISBN13: 9780394408224
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Classic of a previous age

When I first read this I had no idea that he was starting a type of writing that would catch on. Reading :"Archimedes' Revenge" by Paul Hoffman, I realized that he was using the same techniques that Martin Gardner had. One of Hoffman's examples is the same Möbius band in a new context. The perfect numbers are also in both books as well as a section on strange tiling effects. That the Harter -Heighway dragon was introduced here as well makes the book a classic of the last age of mathematical innocence, before mathematical genealogy took over.