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2. List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns - Wikipedia

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   A collection of tantalizing fallacies of mathematics. 1958 Feb. Concerning the game of Nim and its mathematical analysis. 1958 Mar. About left- and right-handedness, mirror images and kindred matters. 1958 Apr. Concerning the celebrated puzzle of five sailors, a monkey and a pile of coconuts.

3. Ian Stewart (mathematician) - Wikipedia

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   warwick .ac .uk /fac /sci /maths /people /staff /ian _stewart. Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA (born 24 September 1945) [3] is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. [4] He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England.

4. List of Ender's Game series short stories - Wikipedia

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   First Meetings. "Investment Counselor". This is the story of how Ender Wiggin first meets the AI Jane and decides to become a speaker for the dead. "The Polish Boy". This is the story of how John Paul Wiggin (Ender's father) comes to the attention of the International Fleet as a child. "Teacher's Pest". This is the story of how John Paul Wiggin ...

5. Category:Mathematics fiction books - Wikipedia

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   Category:Mathematics fiction books. Category. : Mathematics fiction books. These mathematical fiction novels and other fiction books have some elements of mathematics, or feature real or fictional mathematicians. Frequently these books use narrative devices to explore mathematical topics.

6. Pig (dice game) - Wikipedia

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   The game of Pig is played with a single six-sided die. Pig is a simple dice game first described in print by John Scarne in 1945. [1] Players take turns to roll a single die as many times as they wish, adding all roll results to a running total, but losing their gained score for the turn if they roll a 1. As with many games of folk origin, Pig ...

7. Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School - Wikipedia

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   Children's literature portal. Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is a children's novel by Louis Sachar in the Wayside School series. The book contains mathematical and logic puzzles for the reader to solve, presented as what The New Yorker called "absurdist math problems." [1] The problems are interspersed with characteristically quirky ...

8. Liar's dice - Wikipedia

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   Liar's dice. Liar's dice is a class of dice games for two or more players requiring the ability to deceive and to detect an opponent's deception. In "single hand" liar's dice games, each player has a set of dice, all players roll once, and the bids relate to the dice each player can see (their hand) plus all the concealed dice (the other ...

9. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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   The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.