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Description of  Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers

Table of Contents Preface ix chapter I Penrose Tiling 1 chapter 2 Penrose Tiling II 19 chapier 3 Mandelbrot's Fractals 31 chapier 4 Conway's Surreal Numbers 49 chapter 5 Back from the Klondike and Other Problems chapter 6 The Oulipo 79 chapter 1 Ihe Oulipo II 95 chapter 8 WythofTs Him 103 chapter 9 Pool-Ball Iriangles and Other Problems chapter 10 Mathematical Induction and Colored Hats chapter 1 1 Negative Numbers 151 chapter 12 Cutting Shapes into N Congruent Parts 165 chapter 13 Trapdoor Ciphers 183 chapter 14 Trapdoor Ciphers II 195 chapter 15 Hyperbolas 205 chapter 16 The New Eleusis 219 chapter 11 Ramsey Theory 231 chapter 18 From Burrs to Unocal 249 chapter 19 Sicherman Dice, the Kruskal Count and Other Curiosities 265 chapter 20 Raymond Smullyan's logic Puzzles 281 chapter 21 The Return of Dr. Matrix 293 Name Index 307