Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi

Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi isthe inaugural volume in The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Libraryseries. Based off of Gardener's enormously popular ScientificAmerican columns, his puzzles and challenges can now fascinate awhole new generation Paradoxes and paper-folding, Moebiusvariations and mnemonics, fallacies, magic square, topologicalcuriosities, parlor tricks, and games ancient and modern, fromPolyminoes, Nim, Hex, and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensionalticktacktoe. These mathematical recreations, clearly and cleverlypresented by Martin Gardner, delight and perplex whiledemonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and otherfields of mathematics. Now the author, in consultation withexperts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new gamevariations, mathematical proofs, and other developments anddiscoveries.