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Puzzlers' Tribute

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A Feast for the Mind

Puzzlers' Tribute

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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
DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9781439864104
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

chapter |10 pages

How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World

chapter |4 pages

Variations on a Transcendental Theme

chapter |8 pages

Magic "Squares" Indeed!

chapter |4 pages

The Beer Bottles Problem

chapter |6 pages

The Fractal Society

chapter 4|4 pages

Games for Gardner

chapter |8 pages

The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares

chapter |4 pages

Sum-Free Games

chapter |4 pages

Shadows and Plugs

chapter |4 pages

A Neglected Trigonometric Gem

chapter |6 pages

Kotani's Ant Problem

chapter |8 pages

Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting

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