Gardner Martin. Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions. The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games

University of Chicago Press, 1988. — 213 p.The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles & Games.This revision of a 1959 title offers schools a wonderful collection of reprinted articles from Scientific American with afterwords to bring the topics up to date. Math students and puzzle nuts will appreciate this assortment, which ranges from the hexaflexagons of the title to tic-tac-toe to card tricks and their mathematical explanations.Paradoxes and Paperfolding, Moebius Variations and Mnemonics, Fallacies, Brain-Teasers, Magic Squares, Topological Curiosities, Probability, and a variety of ancient and new problems, from Polyonzinoes and Hex to Four-Dimensional Ticktacktoe, and including, of course, solutions.
With a new afterword by the author, and an extensive new bibliography.