Mathematical wizardry for a Gardner /
In this volume, world-leading puzzle designers, puzzle collectors, mathematicians, and magicians continue the tradition of honoring Martin Gardner, who inspired them to enter mathematics, to enter magic, to bring magic into their mathematics, or to bring mathematics into their magic. This edited col...
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Wellesley, Massachusetts :
A K Peters, Limited,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; In Memoriam; I. Spin a Tale; The Ig Nobel Prizes ; Martin Gardner and Paperfolding; ...Nothing but Confusion? Anamorphoses with Double Meaning; II. Ponder a Puzzle; Peg Solitaire with Diagonal Jumps; The Grand Time Sudoku and the Law of Leftovers; Patulous Pegboard Polygons; Beamer Variant; Packing Equal Circles in a Square; III. Bring a Friend; Uncountable Sets and an Infinite Real Number Game; The Cyclic Butler University Game; Misere Play of G-A-R-D-N-E-R, the G4G7 Heptagon Game; IV. Play with Numbers
- The Association Method for Solving Certain Coin-Weighing ProblemsThe Art of Ready Reckoning; Spherical Algebra; Mathematical Idol; The Elevator Problem; V. Take a Shape; Jordan as a Jordan Curve; Wang Tiles, Dynamical Systems, and Beatty Difference Sequences; The Trilobite and Cross; Orderly Tangles Revisited; Quasi-Periodic Essays in Architectural and Musical Form; Ellipses; Dances with Tangrams (and without Wolves); Two Special Polyhedra Among the Regular Toroids; Back Cover