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The Secret World of Flexagons

Fascinating Folded Paper Puzzles

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-56047-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Erscheinungstermin: 19.03.2025
Lieferfrist: bis zu 10 Tage

The hexaflexagon is a folded paper strip of colored triangles that has long delighted people with how it "magically" changes its appearance when “flexed”. This hands-on, comprehensive book goes beyond the hexaflexagon, the standard version of this folded puzzle, exponentially expanding this barely explored field as it brings new options and fresh insights to light.

- Learn over a dozen different flexes, make dozens of different flexagons with the aid of step-by-step illustrated directions and templates to copy and print.

- Delve into the internal structure of flexagons and discover a universal way to describe and predict their behavior.

- Learn how to create your own custom flexagons with a special computer program.

- Understand how flexagons are connected to group theory, computer science, and topology.

- Have fun decorating flexagons and make flexagon books, puzzles, pop-ups, mazes, and more.

Written in a clear, easy-to-understand, and conversational style; and enhanced with challenges and tips to broaden your flexagon skills and spark creativity, The Secret World of Flexagons: Fascinating Folded Paper Puzzles is a must for flexagon enthusiasts, teachers, students, libraries, mathematicians and everyone who loves to solve a good puzzle.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032560472
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-56047-2
  • Verlag: CRC Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 19.03.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2025
  • Serie: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 780 g
  • Seiten: 336
  • Format (B x H): 210 x 280 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Introduction

Part One: Symmetric Flexes
1: The Pinch Flex
2: General Tips
3: More Faces
4: Triangle Tetraflexagon and Octaflexagon
5: Different Triangles
6: Pinch Flex Variations
7: The Book Flex
8: The Box Flex

Part Two: Asymmetric Flexes
9: Flex Diagrams
10: The V-Flex
11: The Tuck Flex
12: The Flip Flex
13: The Pyramid Shuffle Flex
14: Breaking Down Flexes
15: Slot Flexes

Part Three: Learning about Flexagons
16: Flexagon Naming
17: State Diagrams
18: Flex Sequences
19: Pat Notation
20: Atomic Flex Theory
21: Defining Flexagon and Flex
22: Groups and Flexagons
23: Flexagon Computers
24: Conrad and Hartline’s Flexagon Theory
25: Les Pook’s Flexagon Theory
26: Topology
27: Templates and Labels

Part Four: Exploring Flexagons
28: Square Silver Octaflexagon
29: Hexagonal Bronze Dodecaflexagon
30: Hexagonal Silver Dodecaflexagon
31: Silver Bracelet
32: Octagonal Ring 14-flexagon
33: Flexagon Inspector

Part Five: Fun with Flexagons
34: Decorating Flexagons
35: Flexagon Books
36: Flexagon Puzzles and Mazes
37: Flexagon Pop-ups
38: Cutting Flexagons

Epilogue
Appendices
A: Definitions
B: Flexagon Charts
C: Flex Compendium
Bibliography