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Barrycades and Septoku

Papers in Honor of Martin Gardner and Tom Rodgers

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The Gathering 4 Gardner is a biannual conference founded--and for many years organized--by Tom Rodgers to celebrate the spirit of Martin Gardner. While primarily concerned with recreational mathematics, most of Gardner's intellectual interests are featured, including magic, literature, philosophy, puzzles, art, and rationality. Gardner's writing inspired several generations of mathematicians by introducing us to the joy of discovery and exploration, and the Gathering's aim is to continue that tradition of inspiration. This volume, a tribute to Rodgers and Gardner, consists 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. There are games and puzzles, including new Nim-like games, chess puzzles, coin weighings, coin flippings, and contributions that combine art and puzzles or magic and puzzles. Two historical articles present the stories of combinatorial game theory and the search for God's number for Rubik's Cube. Anyone who finds pleasure in clever and intriguing intellectual puzzles will find much to enjoy in Barrycades and Septoku.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-30
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt330 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpectrum
Antal sidor234
FörlagAmerican Mathematical Society
ISBN9781470448707

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Sequences, tiling, and packing: N. J. A. Sloane, Eight hateful sequencesR. K. Guy, Building barrycades and constructing corralsS. W. Golomb, Limited placements of polyominoes on rectanglesH. H.-H. Yu, Polyominoes on a multicolored infinite gridFun and games: C. P. dos Santos, A chess tribute to John Horton ConwayA. N. Siegel, Some new combinatorial gamesB. Cipra, Factor subtractorG. I. Bell, The mathematics of SeptokuHistory: T. Rokicki, Thirty years of computer cubing: The search for God's numberL. Rougetet, Nim-like games: An ancestryPuzzles: B. Chen, Y. H. Fu, A. Liu, G. Sicherman, H. Taylor, and P.-S. Wu, Triangles of absolute differencesM. L. Fredman, D. A. Kleitman, and P. Winkler, Generalization of a puzzle involving set partitionsY. Elran, A generalization of RetrolifeT. Khovanova and K. Knop, Coins of three different weightsG. Hart, Rubber bandzzles: Three mathematical puzzle-art challengesArt, sculpture, and design: G. Hart, Comet!M. O. van Deventer and I. Kriz, Developing Topsy Turvy and Number PlanetMagic and miscellany: N. Benbernou, E. D. Demaine, M. L. Demaine, and B. Rossman, Coin-flipping magicE. D. Demaine, M. L. Demaine, B. Palop, and J. Ku, Three puzzle fonts.