The trick used to invert the carpet had previously been mentioned in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American April, May 1972; the columns were reprinted in _Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements.
The trick used to invert the carpet had previously been mentioned in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American April, May 1972; the columns were reprinted in _Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements.