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Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First 'Scientific American' Book of Puzzles and Games Paperback – September 15, 1988

by Martin Gardner (Author)

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These clearly and cleverly presented mathematical recreations of paradoxes and paperfolding, Moebius variations and mnemonics both ancient and modern delight and perplex while demonstating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other mathematical fields.

"A classic."--Andrew Rothery, Times Education Supplement

"Martin Gardner has turned a trick as neat as any in the book itself. He has selected a group of diversions which are not only entertaining but mathematically meaningful as well. The result is a work which is rewarding on almost every level of mathematical achievement."--Miriam Hecht, Iscripta Mathematica

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Product Details

Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (September 15, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226282546
ISBN-13: 978-0226282541
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

A delight for young and old

By A Williams on January 31, 2001

Format: Paperback

Martin Gardners column "Mathematical Games" was in the magazine "Scientific American" for so long that he was more than an institution. This was the first of his books to take some of the ideas from the many columns and present them in volume format.
I first came across it in a British edition titled "Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions" in my early teens. From memory it took me around three weeks and two rolls of adding machine tape to finish with the hexaflexagons (don't ask, just buy the book) in the first chapter.
Mr Gardner deserves his reputation as a writer who can simplify complex subjects without talking down to the audience and this is well demonstrated in this volume. Some of the later chapters deal with parts of probability and game theory that skirt around some complex maths while someone with little mathematical ability (such as myself) finds it easy to follow along. The prose is light and easily read while the subject matter is entertaining.
I would recommend this book for someone mathematically inclined in their early teens or anyone in their mid teens or later. If you have a child capable of mathematical and/or logical thought who is getting turned off mathematics by the rigors and dullness of school then this volume may well turn the trick - I know it was influential in convincing me that it was my schooling and not my mind that had ruined my maths ability. I give it only four stars as it is now starting to show its age, otherwise it would have five.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Reeks of Awesomeness!

By John M. Boger on November 10, 2001

Format: Paperback

After a long afternoon of studying ordinary differential equations, computer science, and japanese, it is great to find a book like this that sucks you right in, absorbs your brain for a couple of hours, and then inspires you to cut, paste, & fold paper. What you see absolutely reeks of awesomeness. I love Martin Gardner! (Last month's reading, Knotted Doughnuts, was equally fun!)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Simply excellent

By Nic on July 8, 2004

Format: Paperback

This book is worth getting if only to find out how to make a hexaflexagon. The problems in it are truly absorbing.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Hexaflexagons and Mathematical diversions

By Carmen on June 16, 2000

Format: Paperback

This book is an amazing one and it is definetly recommended to the people who like math puzzles, games, or thought challenges. Also it is a great book to distract yourself. It is a book that you would like to keep in your shelf. Martin Gardner is a great writer and has other great books on many other different mathematical puzzles.

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Martin Gardner's First Book

By Sam E. Sibley on May 25, 2008

Format: Paperback

The first book by Martin Gardner, writer of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American. Well written and easy to read; suitable for anyone familiar with high school Algebra. Fun!

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