عنوان

The mathemagician and pied puzzler :

(Number (ISBN

156881075X

(Number (ISBN

9781568810751

Number

b518100

Title Proper

The mathemagician and pied puzzler :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a collection in tribute to Martin Gardner /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Natick, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

A K Peters,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1999

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 266 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

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 --

Text of Note

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 and 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 Bruijin graphs / Herbert Taylor -- Computer analysis of sprouts / David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator -- Strange new life forms : update / Bill Gosper -- Hollow mazes / M. Oskar van Deventer -- Some diophantine recreations / David Singmaster -- Who wins Misre Hex ? / Jeffrey Lagarias and 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

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Mathematical recreations

Class number

Book number

Berlekamp, Elwyn R

Gardner, Martin,1914-2010

Rodgers, Tom,1943-

Date of Transaction

20110517102053.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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