Playing Games in Two Dimensions

March 03, 2020

Playing Games in Two Dimensions

Exploring the Depths of Flatland

Let celebrated amateur mathematician Martin Gardner be your guide to the planar playground in this month’s eBook, where we step into Gardner’s two-dimensional world and examine the fascinating mathematics to be done in flatland. For more great reading, check out these other titles.

Martin Gardner: Adventures in Flatland

For 25 years in his Mathematical Games column, Gardner mixed well-understood topics with the cutting-edge. In this eBook, we’ve selected some of Gardner’s best columns set in two dimensions, including games like Hex, geometric puzzles of transforming one shape to another, the physics of a two-dimensional world and more

The Rise of Humans

Of all the species on Earth, why did ours rise to dominance? Previously, scientists thought many uniquely human traits resulted from sudden or brilliant adaptations, but new discoveries point to gradual processes that involve biological and social factors. In this eBook, we examine recent research on the origins of human cognitive abilities, ingenuity, language and culture as well as the advances opening doors to new hypotheses.

Secrets of the Brain

The sense of position and movement is often called the sixth sense; the brain’s connection to the immune system might be a seventh. In this eBook, we examine these and other areas of brain activity beyond the five senses, including the glymphatic system for maintaining brain health, mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms and new research raising questions about “brain death.”