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Puzzlers' Tribute
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A Feast for the Mind
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Puzzlers' Tribute book
A Feast for the Mind
Edited ByDavid Wolfe, Tom Rodgers
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2001
eBook Published 12 May 2001
Pub. Location New York
Imprint A K Peters/CRC Press
Pages 438
eBook ISBN 9780429062407
Subjects Mathematics & Statistics
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Wolfe, D., & Rodgers, T. (Eds.). (2001). Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind (1st ed.). A K Peters/CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781439864104
ABSTRACT
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 Ga
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I: The Toast, Tributes
chapter |4 pages
Harry Eng: A Tribute
chapter |4 pages
The Eng Coin Vise
chapter |4 pages
David A. Klarner—A Memorial Tribute
chapter |4 pages
David Klarner's Pentacube Towers
chapter |2 pages
Some Reminiscences of David Klarner
chapter |8 pages
Just for the Mel of It
chapter |4 pages
Mel Stover
chapter |2 pages
The Stack of Quarters
part |2 pages
PART II: Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader
chapter |4 pages
Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner
chapter |2 pages
A Clock Puzzle
chapter 3|6 pages
Problems
chapter |4 pages
A Scrub Tile Puzzle
chapter |6 pages
All Tied up in Naughts
chapter |6 pages
Jumping Cards
chapter 6|4 pages
Off-beat Chess Problems
chapter 4|4 pages
Squares for Squares
chapter |80 pages
PORT III: Smoked Ham: A Course in Magic
part |2 pages
PART IV: Chef's Caprice
chapter |8 pages
Coincidences
chapter |4 pages
The Bard and the Bible
chapter |12 pages
Inversions: Lettering with a Mathematical Twist
chapter |12 pages
All You Need Is Cards
chapter |14 pages
Calendrical Conundrums
chapter 2|2 pages
Poems
part |2 pages
PART V: Wild Game
chapter |4 pages
What Makes the Puzzler Tick?
chapter |8 pages
Diabolical Puzzles from Japan
chapter |6 pages
How to Outwit the Parity
chapter |6 pages
Inflated Pentominoes
chapter |2 pages
Pixel Polyominoes
chapter |4 pages
Pythagorean Puzzle
chapter |6 pages
Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle
chapter |8 pages
A Classification of Burrs
chapter |4 pages
Paving Mazes
chapter |24 pages
Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s
chapter |4 pages
Interlocking Spirals
chapter |6 pages
The Partridge Puzzles
part |2 pages
PART VI: Mathematical Entrees
chapter |16 pages
Fermat's Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension
chapter |14 pages
Games People Don't Play
chapter |12 pages
Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists
chapter |14 pages
How Flies Fly: The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves
chapter |8 pages
Some Tricks and Paradoxes
part |2 pages
PART VII: Mathematical Treats