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The mathemagician and pied puzzler : a collection in tribute to Martin Gardner / edited by Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers.

Contributor(s): Berlekamp, Elwyn R | Gardner, Martin, 1914- | Rodgers, Tom, 1943-.
Publisher: Natick, Mass. : A K Peters, c1999Description: x, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 156881075X.Subject(s): Mathematical recreationsDDC classification: 793.74
Contents:
Foreword / Elwyn Berlekamp, Tom Rodgers. - I. Personal Magic. Martin Gardner: A "Documentary" / Dana Richards. Ambrose, Gardner, and Doyle / Raymond Smullyan. A Truth Learned Early / Carl Pomerance. Martin Gardner = Mint! Grand! Rare! / Jeremiah Farrell. Three Limericks: On Space, Time, and Speed / Tim Rowett. - II. Puzzlers. A Maze with Rules / Robert Abbott. Biblical Ladders / Donald E. Knuth. Card Game Trivia / Stewart Lamle. Creative Puzzle Thinking / Nob Yoshigahara. Number Play, Calculators, and Card Tricks: Mathemagical Black Holes / Michael W. Ecker. Puzzles from Around the World / Richard I. Hess. O'Beirne's Hexiamond / Richard K. Guy. Japanese Tangram (The Sei Shonagon Pieces) / Shigeo Takagi. How a Tangram Cat Happily Turns into the Pink Panther / Bernhard Wiezorke. Polly's Flagstones / Stewart Coffin. Those Peripatetic Pentominoes / Kate Jones. Self-Designing Tetraflexagons / Robert E. Neale. The Odyssey of the Figure Eight Puzzle / Stewart Coffin. Metagrobolizers of Wire / Rick Irby. Beautiful but Wrong: The Floating Hourglass Puzzle / Scot Morris. Cube Puzzles / Jeremiah Farrell. The Nine Color Puzzle / Sivy Fahri. Twice: A Sliding Block Puzzle / Edward Hordern. Planar Burrs / M. Oskar van Deventer. Block-Packing Jambalaya / Bill Cutler Classification of Mechanical Puzzles and Physical Objects Related to Puzzles / James Dalgety, Edward Hordern. - III. Mathemagics. A Curious Paradox / Raymond Smullyan. A Powerful Procedure for Proving Practical Propositions / Solomon W. Golomb. Misfiring Tasks / Ken Knowlton. Drawing de Bruijn Graphs / Herbert Taylor. Computer Analysis of Sprouts / David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, Daniel Sleator. Strange New Life Forms: Update / Bill Gosper.
Hollow Mazes / M. Oskar van Deventer. Some Diophantine Recreations / David Singmaster. Who Wins Misere Hex? / Jeffrey Lagarias, Daniel Sleator. An Update on Odd Neighbors and Odd Neighborhoods / Leslie E. Shader. Point Mirror Reflection / M. Oskar van Deventer. How Random Are 3x + 1 Function Iterates? / Jeffrey C. Lagarias.
Summary: This volume comprises an imaginative collection of pieces created in tribute to Martin Gardner. Perhaps best known for writing Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column for years, Gardner uses his personal exuberance and fascination with puzzles and magic to entice a wide range of readers into a world of mathematical discovery. This tribute volume therefore contains pieces as widely varied as Gardner's own interests, ranging from limericks to lengthy treatise, from mathematical journal articles to personal stories. - Back cover
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Foreword / Elwyn Berlekamp, Tom Rodgers. - I. Personal Magic. Martin Gardner: A "Documentary" / Dana Richards. Ambrose, Gardner, and Doyle / Raymond Smullyan. A Truth Learned Early / Carl Pomerance. Martin Gardner = Mint! Grand! Rare! / Jeremiah Farrell. Three Limericks: On Space, Time, and Speed / Tim Rowett. - II. Puzzlers. A Maze with Rules / Robert Abbott. Biblical Ladders / Donald E. Knuth. Card Game Trivia / Stewart Lamle. Creative Puzzle Thinking / Nob Yoshigahara. Number Play, Calculators, and Card Tricks: Mathemagical Black Holes / Michael W. Ecker. Puzzles from Around the World / Richard I. Hess. O'Beirne's Hexiamond / Richard K. Guy. Japanese Tangram (The Sei Shonagon Pieces) / Shigeo Takagi. How a Tangram Cat Happily Turns into the Pink Panther / Bernhard Wiezorke. Polly's Flagstones / Stewart Coffin. Those Peripatetic Pentominoes / Kate Jones. Self-Designing Tetraflexagons / Robert E. Neale. The Odyssey of the Figure Eight Puzzle / Stewart Coffin. Metagrobolizers of Wire / Rick Irby. Beautiful but Wrong: The Floating Hourglass Puzzle / Scot Morris. Cube Puzzles / Jeremiah Farrell. The Nine Color Puzzle / Sivy Fahri. Twice: A Sliding Block Puzzle / Edward Hordern. Planar Burrs / M. Oskar van Deventer. Block-Packing Jambalaya / Bill Cutler Classification of Mechanical Puzzles and Physical Objects Related to Puzzles / James Dalgety, Edward Hordern. - III. Mathemagics. A Curious Paradox / Raymond Smullyan. A Powerful Procedure for Proving Practical Propositions / Solomon W. Golomb. Misfiring Tasks / Ken Knowlton. Drawing de Bruijn Graphs / Herbert Taylor. Computer Analysis of Sprouts / David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, Daniel Sleator. Strange New Life Forms: Update / Bill Gosper.

Hollow Mazes / M. Oskar van Deventer. Some Diophantine Recreations / David Singmaster. Who Wins Misere Hex? / Jeffrey Lagarias, Daniel Sleator. An Update on Odd Neighbors and Odd Neighborhoods / Leslie E. Shader. Point Mirror Reflection / M. Oskar van Deventer. How Random Are 3x + 1 Function Iterates? / Jeffrey C. Lagarias.

This volume comprises an imaginative collection of pieces created in tribute to Martin Gardner. Perhaps best known for writing Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column for years, Gardner uses his personal exuberance and fascination with puzzles and magic to entice a wide range of readers into a world of mathematical discovery. This tribute volume therefore contains pieces as widely varied as Gardner's own interests, ranging from limericks to lengthy treatise, from mathematical journal articles to personal stories. - Back cover