Gardner M. The Last Recreations. Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications

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1997 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

Contents
Preface
The Wonders of a Planiverse
Bulgarian Solitaire and Other Seemingly Endless Tasks
Fun with Eggs, Part I
Fun with Eggs, Part I1
The Topology of Knots
M-Pire Maps
Directed Graphs and Cannibals
Dinner Guests, Schoolgirls, and Handcuffed Prisoners
The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups
Taxicab Geometry
The Power of the Pigeonhole
Strong Laws of Small Primes
Checker Recreations, Part I
Checker Recreations, Part I1
Modulo Arithmetic and Hummer's Wicked Witch
Lavinia Seeks a Room and Other Problems
The Symmetry Creations of Scott Kim
Parabolas
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Voting Mathematics
A Toroidal Paradox and Other Problems
Minimal Steiner Trees
Trivalent Graphs, Snarks, and Boojums
Index

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