Puzzlers' tribute : a feast for the mind / edited by David Wolfe and Tom Rodgers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodgers, Tom, 1943-

Wolfe, David, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical recreations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 420 p. : ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Natick, Mass. : A.K. Peters, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This second collection of interesting mathematical puzzles continues the tribute to Martin Gardner, who has provided us with original puzzles and puzzling stories ever since he created and produced the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. The international community of puzzle enthusiasts has gathered once again to celebrate Martin Gardner's continued contribution and, most fittingly, has done so in kind, by providing new challenges to our inquiring minds. We proudly present this collection to the mathemagicians of the world for their enjoyment, as a playful provocation.

Contents:

part PART I: The Toast, Tributes

chapter Harry Eng: A Tribute

chapter The Eng Coin Vise

chapter David A. Klarner?A Memorial Tribute

chapter David Klarner's Pentacube Towers

chapter Some Reminiscences of David Klarner

chapter Just for the Mel of It

chapter Mel Stover

chapter The Stack of Quarters

part PART II: Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader

chapter Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner

chapter A Clock Puzzle

chapter 3 Problems

chapter A Scrub Tile Puzzle

chapter All Tied up in Naughts

chapter Jumping Cards

chapter 6 Off-beat Chess Problems

chapter 4 Squares for Squares

chapter PORT III: Smoked Ham: A Course in Magic

part PART IV: Chef's Caprice

chapter Coincidences

chapter The Bard and the Bible

chapter Inversions: Lettering with a Mathematical Twist

chapter All You Need Is Cards

chapter Calendrical Conundrums

chapter 2 Poems

part PART V: Wild Game

chapter What Makes the Puzzler Tick?

chapter Diabolical Puzzles from Japan

chapter How to Outwit the Parity

chapter Inflated Pentominoes

chapter Pixel Polyominoes

chapter Pythagorean Puzzle

chapter Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle

chapter A Classification of Burrs

chapter Paving Mazes

chapter Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s

chapter Interlocking Spirals

chapter The Partridge Puzzles

part PART VI: Mathematical Entrees

chapter Fermat's Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension

chapter Games People Don't Play

chapter Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists

chapter How Flies Fly: The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves

chapter Some Tricks and Paradoxes

part PART VII: Mathematical Treats

chapter How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World

chapter Variations on a Transcendental Theme

chapter Magic

chapter The Beer Bottles Problem

chapter The Fractal Society

chapter 4 Games for Gardner

chapter The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares

chapter Sum-Free Games

chapter Shadows and Plugs

chapter A Neglected Trigonometric Gem

chapter Kotani's Ant Problem

chapter Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-005312-2

0-429-06240-0

1-4398-6410-1

9780429062407

OCLC:

922955605