Cows in the maze / Ian Stewart.
By: Stewart, Ian [author].
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TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780199562077 (pbk.); 0199562075 (pbk.).Subject(s): Mathematical recreations | Mathematics -- Popular worksDDC classification: 510 STE | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296), webography (p. 287) and index.
The lore and the lure of dice -- Pursuing polygonal privacy -- Making winning connections -- Jumping champions -- Walking with quadrupeds -- Tiling space with knots -- Forward to the future 1: Trapped in time! -- Forward to the future 2: Holes : black, white, and worm -- Forward to the future 3: Back to the past, with interest... -- Cone with a twist -- What shape is a teardrop? -- The interrogator's fallacy -- Cows in the maze -- Knight's tours on rectangles -- Cat's cradle calculus challenge -- Glass Klein bottles -- Cementing relationships -- Knotting ventured, knotting gained -- Most-perfect magic squares -- It can't be done! -- Dances with dodecahedra.
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