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'''''Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements''''' is a book by [[Biography:Martin Gardner|Martin Gardner]] published in 1983. The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has recommended its inclusion in undergraduate mathematics libraries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/wheels-life-and-other-mathematical-amusements|title=Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|access-date=2020-07-09}}</ref>

==Contents==
''Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements'' is a book of 22 mathematical games columns that were revised and extended after being previously published in ''Scientific American''.<ref name="WD55"/> It is Gardner's 10th collection of columns, and includes material on [[Conway's Game of Life]], [[Supertask|supertask]]s, [[Intransitive dice|intransitive dice]], braided polyhedra, [[Combinatorial game theory|combinatorial game theory]], the [[Collatz conjecture]], mathematical card tricks, and [[Diophantine equation]]s such as [[Fermat's Last Theorem]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements''|journal=zbMATH|first=G. A.|last=Heuer|zbl=0537.00002}}</ref>

==Reception==
Dave Langford reviewed ''Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements'' for ''White Dwarf'' #55, and stated that "Here too are revisions of the three famous pieces on Conway's solitaire game ''Life'', which has absorbed several National Debts' worth of computer time since 1970. Fascinating."<ref name="WD55">{{cite journal  | last =Langford | first =Dave |  title =Critical Mass  | journal =White Dwarf  | issue = 55  | pages =20  | publisher =[[Company:Games Workshop|Games Workshop]]  | date = July 1984  }}</ref> The book was positively reviewed in several other mathematics and science journals.<ref>Additional reviews:
*{{cite journal|last=Roberts|first=Sharon M.|date=May 1984|issue=5|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|jstor=27964108|page=397|title=none|volume=77}}
*{{cite journal|last=Golomb|first=Solomon W.|date=July–August 1984|issue=4|journal=American Scientist|jstor=27852818|page=408|title=none|volume=72}}
*{{cite journal|last=Carter|first=D. C.|date=March 1985|doi=10.2307/3616487|issue=447|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|jstor=3616487|page=75|title=none|volume=69}}
*{{cite journal|last=Klarner|first=David A.|date=April 1986|doi=10.2307/2323703|issue=4|journal=[[The American Mathematical Monthly]]|jstor=2323703|pages=321–323|title=none|volume=93}}
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