Nonplussed! (49 page)

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Abbott, Edwin A.

Apollo

arithmetic–geometric series

Ascension Day

Bellman, Richard

Bernoulli, Jakob

Bouguer, Pierre

Budget of Paradoxes

Caesar, Julius

Carroll, Lewis

Cavalieri’s Principle

Cavalieri, Bonaventura

chequerboard

Chokwe

Circle of Apollonius

cissoid

Comte de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc

continuous hyperdimensions

Conway, John Horton

curse of dimensionality

De Morgan, Augustus

derangement

Descartes, René

Diaconis, Persi

Digamma function

Diocles

Dubuque, Bill

Easter Sunday

Effron, Bradley

error function

ethnomathematics

Euclidean Algorithm

Fibonnaci number

FIBONNACIGAME

Flatland

football match

forming a team

Fractran

gambler’s ruin

Gamma function

Gardner, Martin

Gauss’s formula

Gelfond Constant

geometric probability

Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs)

Golden Ratio

Graham DIAL

Graham, L. A.

Graham, Ronald L.

GUIDs

Guy, Richard

Halmos, Paul

Hardy, G. H.

Hathout, Heba

Heinzelin, Jean de

HMS
Friday

Hobbes, Thomas

Huygens, Christiaan

hypercube

hypersphere

inclusion–exclusion principle

Ishango Bone

Julian calendar

Kilminster, Devin

Laaser, William T.

Lazzarini, Mario

leap year

Leybourn, William

Lindemann, Ferdinand

linear pursuit curve

Lo Shu Magic Square

logarithmic (or equiangular) spirals

Logarithmic Spiral

London
Times

Lyttleton, Raymond A.

Manifold

Matthews, Robert

method of exhaustion

Montmort, Pierre Renard de

Moser, Leo

nontransitive dice

O’Beirne, Tim

off square cutting

Old Bailey, Proceedings of the

Pancake Day

paradoxers

paraskevidekatriaphobia

Parrondo, Juan

Penny Cyclopaedia

Pepys, Samuel

PIGAME

Pleasure with Profit

Pope Gregory XIII

PRIMEGAME

Proceedings of the Old Bailey

Pulskamp, Richard J.

Ramshaw, Lyle

random walk

rectangular hyperboloid

reduction formula

rencontre

Rogers, Will

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rowett, Tim

Schwerdtfeger, Berndt

scissors–paper–rock

Sluze, René François de

Smith, James

squaring the circle

stage migration

tennis scoring

tetraphobia

theory of indivisibles

Torricelli’s Trumpet

Torricelli, Evangelista

tournament

transcendental Gelfond Constant

transcendental number

transitive effect

trieze

triskaidekamania

triskaidekaphobia

Uphill Roller

Venn diagram

vernal equinox

Wallis, John