Description
Book SynopsisConsists of papers originally presented at the Gathering 4 Gardner meetings. Recreational mathematics is strongly prominent with contributions from Neil Sloane, Richard Guy, Solomon Golomb, Barry Cipra, Erik Demaine, and many others.
Table of Contents
- Sequences, tiling, and packing: N. J. A. Sloane, Eight hateful sequences
- R. K. Guy, Building barrycades and constructing corrals
- S. W. Golomb, Limited placements of polyominoes on rectangles
- H. H.-H. Yu, Polyominoes on a multicolored infinite grid
- Fun and games: C. P. dos Santos, A chess tribute to John Horton Conway
- A. N. Siegel, Some new combinatorial games
- B. Cipra, Factor subtractor
- G. I. Bell, The mathematics of Septoku
- History: T. Rokicki, Thirty years of computer cubing: The search for God's number
- L. Rougetet, Nim-like games: An ancestry
- Puzzles: B. Chen, Y. H. Fu, A. Liu, G. Sicherman, H. Taylor, and P.-S. Wu, Triangles of absolute differences
- M. L. Fredman, D. A. Kleitman, and P. Winkler, Generalization of a puzzle involving set partitions
- Y. Elran, A generalization of Retrolife
- T. Khovanova and K. Knop, Coins of three different weights
- G. Hart, Rubber bandzzles: Three mathematical puzzle-art challenges
- Art, sculpture, and design: G. Hart, Comet!
- M. O. van Deventer and I. Kriz, Developing Topsy Turvy and Number Planet
- Magic and miscellany: N. Benbernou, E. D. Demaine, M. L. Demaine, and B. Rossman, Coin-flipping magic
- E. D. Demaine, M. L. Demaine, B. Palop, and J. Ku, Three puzzle fonts.
