Table of Contents

Introduction
Martin Gardner on Numbers
by Kristin Ozelli

Section 1
Numbers Real, Imaginary and In-between

1.1
Seeing the Integers through the Trees
1.2
Negative Numbers and Peg Boards
1.3
The Imaginableness of Imaginary Numbers
1.4
The Remarkable Lore of Prime Numbers
1.5
A Surplus of Surreal Number Games

Section 2
Number Sequences, Series and Patterns

2.1
Playing Chess with Catalan Numbers
2.2
Rhyming and Chiming Bell Numbers
2.3
The Strong Law of Small Numbers
2.4
The Figurate Numbers for a Chinese Checker Board

Section 3
Special Constants: Have your Pi and E It too

3.1
Slices of Pi
3.2
Phi, Fibonacci and Mollusks
3.3
Abracadabric "e"
3.4
Omega, the Ultimate Random Number

Section 4
Number Systems: Beyond "The Tyranny of 10"

4.1
Tricks with Ternary Numbers
4.2
The Gray Code Beats Chinese Rings
4.3
Binary Numbers and Mind Reading Cards
4.4
Negabinary Numbers Power a Chessboard Computer
4.5
Binary Numbers and the I Ching