REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
Taking chances by John Haigh, Oxford, 1999, is the definitive book about games of chance, including a discussion of a number of TV game shows.
The Artful Universe by John Barrow, Little Brown, 1995, is a fascinating look at why humans find certain things attractive. Among other things, it contains a more in-depth description of the development of the western week and the musical scale.
Mathematics Today, edited by Lynn Arthur Steen, 1980, was the source of several ideas in this book. It includes the story of the four-colour theorem and various sections on packing.
Websites also provided a rich source of material, in particular two outstanding sites, www.nrich.maths.org and www.mathforum.org.
Other book sources:
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, David Wells, Penguin, 1977
The Calendar, David Ewing Duncan, Fourth Estate, 1998 Vertical Transportation – Elevators & Escalators, George Strakosch, John Wiley, 1983
Introduction to Probability Theory I, William Feller, John Wiley, 1957
The Mathematical Brain, Brian Butterworth, Macmillan, 1999
You are a Mathematician, David Wells, Penguin, 1995
Chaos, James Gleick, Minerva, 1997
The Magical Maze, Ian Stewart, Phoenix, 1998
Mathematical Carnival, Martin Gardner, Pelican, 1978
Lady Luck, Warren Weaver, Pelican, 1977
Further Mathematical Diversions, Martin Gardner, Pelican, 1977
Who is Fourier, Transnational College of Lex, LRF, 1995
The Moscow Puzzles, Boris A. Kordemsky, Dover, 1992
20% of Nothing, AK. Dewdney, Little Brown, 1993
Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos, Penguin, 1990
The Weakest Link, John Haigh
The Rise and Fall of the Pyramid Schemes in Albania, Chris Jarvis
The Best Known Packings of Equal Circles in the Unit Square, E. Specht
Literary and Linguistic computing, Richard Forsyth and David Holmes
New Directions in Text Categorisation, Richard Forsyth
The Ghost’s Vocabulary, Edward Dolnick
The Power of One, Robert Matthews
The Mathematics of Diseases, Matt Keeling
Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony, Margo Schulter
The Development of Musical Tuning Systems, Peter A Frazer
Several of these articles can be found using searches on the worldwide web.