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" The mathemagician and pied puzzler : "
edited by Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers
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BL
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695911
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b518100
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The mathemagician and pied puzzler : : a collection in tribute to Martin Gardner /\ edited by Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers
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Natick, Mass. :: A K Peters,, c1999
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x, 266 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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156881075X
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: 9781568810751
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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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 --
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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
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| LC Classification
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QA95.M366 1999
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Berlekamp, Elwyn R
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Gardner, Martin,1914-2010
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Rodgers, Tom,1943-
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