Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Diversions [Paperback]

The second of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube is the second volume in Martin Gardners New Mathematical Library, based on his enormously popular Scientific American columns. The author, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters to challenge and fascinate a new generation of readers.Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube is the second volume in Martin Gardners New Mathematical Library, based on his enormously popular Scientific American columns. The author, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters to challenge and fascinate a new generation of readers.Martin Gardner continues to delight readers in Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube, which is the second volume in the new Cambridge series, The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library, based off his enormously popular Scientific American columns. He introduces young and old readers alike to the Generalized Ham Sandwich Theorem, origami, digital roots, magic squares, the mathematics of cooling coffee, the induction game of Eleusis, Dudeney puzzles, the maze at Hampton Court Palace, and many more mathematical puzzles and principles. Now the author, in consultation with experts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new game variations, mathematical proofs, and other developments and discoveries, to challenge and fascinate a new generation of readers.1. The five platonic solids; 2. Tetraflexagons; 3. Henry Dudeney: England's greatest puzzlist; 4. Digital roots; 5. Nine problems; 6. The soma cube; 7. Recreational topology; 8. Phi: the golden ratio; 9. The monkey and the coconuts; 10. Mazes; 11. Recreational logic; 12. Magic squares; 13. James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc.; 14. Nine more problems; 15. Eleusis: the induction game; 16. Origami; 17. Squaring the square; 18. Mechanical puzzles; 19. Probability and ambiguity; 20. The mysterious Dr Matrix. MarlsÅ