Puzzlers Tribute : a Feast for the Mind.
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 puzzl...
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| 505 | 0 | |a ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""In Memoriam""; ""A Greeting to Martin Gardner""; ""The Toast: Tributes""; ""Harry Eng: A Tribute""; ""The Eng Coin Vise""; ""David A. Klarner�A Memorial Tribute""; ""David Klarner�s Pentacube Towers""; ""Some Reminiscences of David Klarner""; ""Just for the Mel of It""; ""Mel Stover""; ""The Stack of Quarters""; ""Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader""; ""Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner""; ""A Clock Puzzle""; ""Three Problems""; ""A Scrub Tile Puzzle""; ""All Tied up in Naughts""; ""Jumping Cards""; ""Six Off-beat Chess Problems"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""Four Squares for Squares""""Smoked Ham: A Course in Magic""; ""It�s All about Astonishment""; ""Shooting Craps Today""; ""The Transcendental Knot""; ""The Brazilian Knot Trick""; ""Mental Match-up""; ""A Labyrinth in a Labyrinth""; ""Paradox Squares Force""; ""A Face in the Shadows""; ""A Card Vanishing in a Nut""; ""Casey at the Fox""; ""Sleight of Hand with Playing Cards prior to Scot�s Discoverie""; ""Cubist Magic""; ""��Impossible�� Foldings""; ""Chef�s Caprice""; ""Coincidences""; ""The Bard and the Bible""; ""Inversions: Lettering with a Mathematical Twist"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""All You Need Is Cards""""Calendrical Conundrums""; ""Two Poems""; ""Wild Game (and Puzzles)""; ""What Makes the Puzzler Tick?""; ""Diabolical Puzzles from Japan""; ""How to Outwit the Parity""; ""Inflated Pentominoes""; ""Pixel Polyominoes""; ""Pythagorean Puzzle""; ""Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle""; ""A Classification of Burrs""; ""Paving Mazes""; ""Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s""; ""Interlocking Spirals""; ""The Partridge Puzzles""; ""Mathematical Entrees""; ""Fermat�s Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension""; ""Games People Don�t Play"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists""""How Flies Fly: The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves""; ""Some Tricks and Paradoxes""; ""Mathematical Treats""; ""How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World""; ""Variations on a Transcendental Theme""; ""Magic ��Squares�� Indeed!""; ""The Beer Bottles Problem""; ""The Fractal Society""; ""Four Games for Gardner""; ""The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares""; ""Sum-Free Games""; ""Shadows and Plugs""; ""A Neglected Trigonometric Gem""; ""Kotani�s Ant Problem""; ""Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting"" | |
| 520 | 3 | |a 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. | |
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