| Description |
viii, 382 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Games: Anyone for twopins? / Richard K. Guy -- Pretzel solitaire as a pastime for the lonely mathematician / N.G. de Bruijn -- Some remarks about a hex problem / Claude Berge -- A Kriegspiel endgame / Jim Boyce -- Mental poker / Adi Shamar, Ronald L. Rivest, Leonard M. Adleman -- Cheap, middling, or dear / V. Chvátal -- A random hopscotch problem, or how to make Johnny read more / David Berengut -- Geometry: Wreaths of tangent circles / Solomon W. Golomb -- Bicycle tubes inside out / Herbert Taylor -- Flexing surfaces / Robert Connelly -- Planting trees / Stephan Burr -- Slicing it thin / Howard Eves -- How did Pappus do it? / Leon Bankoff -- Two-dimensional tiling: Fault-free tiling of rectangles / R.L. Graham -- Disections into equilateral triangles / W.T. Tutte -- In praise of amateurs / Doris Schattschneider -- Some problems on plane tiling / Branko Grünbaum, G.C. Shephard -- Angels and devils / H.S.M. Coxeter -- Three-dimensional tiling: Packing problems and inequalities / D.G. Hoffman -- Can cubes avoid meeting face to face? / Raphael M. Robinson -- Packing handed pentacubes / C.J. Bouwkamp -- My life among the polyominoes / David A. Klarner -- Fun and problems: Disappearances / Donald E. Knuth -- Noneuclidean harmony / Scott Kim -- Magic Cuboctahedrons / Charles W. Trigg -- Games, graphs, and galleries / Ross Honsberger -- Probing the rotating table / William T. Laaser, Lyle Ramshaw -- Numbers and coding theory: Supernatural numbers / Donald E. Knuth -- The graph theorists who count--and what they count / Ronald Read -- Error-correcting codes and cryptography / N.J.A. Sloane |
| Notes |
Volume dedicated to Martin Gardner for his 65th birthday, 21 October 1979 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.
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Mathematical recreations.
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| Genre/Form |
Puzzles and games.
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Festschriften.
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| Author |
Klarner, David A.
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| LC no. |
80022046 |
| ISBN |
0534980155 (Wadsworth) |
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0871502941 |
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