News


Second edition (2018)

  • May 2020, The Mathematics Consortium Bulletin July 2019 Vol. 1, Issue 2 has appeared online
    with an article by Andreas M. Hinz, The Tower of Brahma.
  • 29.1.2019, Andreas M. Hinz presented The Linear Tower of Hanoi (starting at 7' 30") in a section Our Dearest Problems, Recreational Mathematics Colloquium VI - G4G, Lisbon.


First edition (2013)

    • 27.1.2017, Sandi Klavžar had a talk about the Tower of Hanoi in the frame of I<3 MAT series of lectures
    • 1.7.2015, the book is now available also in paperback version and for a rent
    • 2.5.2015, errors pointed out by Andreas M. Hinz in a letter to Spektrum der Wissenschaft, German edition of Scientific American
    • 14.8.2014, Andreas M. Hinz visited Springer booth at International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, showing his book to Japan Springer editors Chino Hasebe and Masayuki Nakamura, 14th August 2014 (twitter, fb, ow.ly)
    • 1.4.2013, Newly published observations of the space observatory Planck of the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed a recent state $s=0^5 1^2 0^5 2^2 0^{50}$ of the Tower of Brahma in Benares on its way from $0^{64}$ to $2^{64}$. This finding has brought us a little nearer to the end of the world; cf. Exercise 2.8.