Description

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Foreword by Ian Stewart.- Preface.- 0 The Beginning of the World.- 1 The Chinese Rings.- 2 The Classical Tower of Hanoi.- 3 Lucas's Second Problem.- 4 Sierpinski Graphs.- 5 The Tower of Hanoi with More Pegs.- 6 Variations of the Puzzle.- 7 The Tower of London.- 8 Tower of Hanoi Variants with Oriented Disc Moves.- 9 The End of the World.- A Hints and Solutions to Exercises.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject Index.- Symbol Index.

About the Author

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Andreas M. Hinz is Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Munich (LMU), Germany. He has worked at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), King's College London (England), the Technical University of Munich (Germany), and the Open University in Hagen (Germany). His main fields of research are real analysis, the history of science, mathematical modeling, and discrete mathematics. Sandi Klavzar is Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia. He is an author of three books on graph theory and an editorial board member of numerous journals including Discrete Applied Mathematics, European Journal of Combinatorics, and MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry. Uros Milutinovic is Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Slovenia. His main fields of research are topology and discrete mathematics. Ciril Petr is a researcher at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Slovenia.