Professor Stewart’s Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities

Professor Stewart’s Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities

Author: Ian Stewart

Year: 1910

Start Here Alien Encounter Tap-an-Animal Curious Calculations Triangle of Cards Pop-up Dodecahedron Sliced Fingers Turnip for the Books The Four-Colour Theorem Shaggy Dog Story Shaggy Cat Story Rabbits in the Hat River Crossing 1 – Farm Produce More Curious Calculations Extracting the Cherry Make Me a Pentagon What is π ? Legislating the Value of π If They Had Passed It . . . Empty glasses How Many— Three Quickies Knight’s Tours Much Undo About Knotting White-Tailed Cats To Find Fake Coin Perpetual Calendar Mathematical Jokes 1 Deceptive Dice An Age-Old Old-Age Problem Why Does Minus Times Minus Make Plus? Heron Suit How to Unmake a Greek Cross How to Remember a Round Number The Bridges of Königsberg How to do Lots of Mathematics Euler’s Pentagonal Holiday Ouroborean Rings The Ourotorus Who Was Pythagoras? Proofs of Pythagoras A Constant Bore Fermat’s Last Theorem Pythagorean Triples Prime Factoids A Little-Known Pythagorean Curiosity Digital Century Squaring the Square Magic Squares Squares of Squares Ring a-Ring a-Ringroad Pure v. Applied Magic Hexagon Pentalpha Wallpaper Patterns How Old Was Diophantus? If You Thought Mathematicians Were Good at Arithmetic . . . The Sphinx is a