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Penrose tiles to trapdoor ciphers: --and the return of Dr. Matrix

By Martin Gardner

Book information

Publisher
Mathematical Association of America
Year
1997
ISBN
0883855216, 9780883855218
LCC
QA95 .G298 1997
Open Library ID
OL708081M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12011307 bytes)
Series
MAA spectrum
Edition
Rev. ed
Pages
325\325
Library
mexmat
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
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Description

Included here are chapters on Conway's surreal numbers, Mandelbrot's fractals, and Smuyllyan's logic puzzles, as well as puzzlers dealing with hyperbolas, negative numbers, pool-ball triangles, Penrose tiles, and trapdoor ciphers. And of course, you can read of the return of Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix (famed numerologist and CIA operative), one of Martin Gardner's oldest fictional friends.Gardner considers himself a philosophical theist in the tradition of Plato, Kant, Pierre Bayle, Charles Peirce, William James and Miguel do Unamuno. He and his wife Charlotte live quietly in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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