MY BEST MATHEMATICAL AND LOGIC PUZZLES Martin Gardner DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. New YoCopyright Copyright © 1994 by Martin Gardner. All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions. Bibliographical Note My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzales, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1994, is a new and original collection of work previously published in Scientific American, Games magazine and in carlier volume collections. A new Introduction has been written expressly for this Dover edition. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gardner, Martin, 1914 My best mathematical and logic puzzles / Martin Gardner. Pp. cm. ISBN 0-486-28152-3 (pbk.) 1. Mathematical recreations. I. Title. QA95.G292 1994 793.7'4—de20 94-25660 cIP Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11502