Mathematical Wizardry for a Gardner

Herausgeber: Pegg Jr, Ed; Rodgers, Tom; Schoen, Alan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, world-leading puzzle designers, puzzle collectors, mathematicians, and magicians continue the tradition of honoring Martin Gardner, who inspired them to enter mathematics, to enter magic, to bring magic into their mathematics, or to bring mathematics into their magic. This edited collection contains a variety of articles connected to puzzles, magic, and/or mathematics, including the history behind given puzzles, solitaire puzzles, two-person games, and mathematically interesting objects. Topics include tangrams, peg solitaire, sodoku, coin-weighing problems, anamorphoses, and more!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781138116719
• ISBN-10: 1138116718
• Artikelnr.: 52715399

Autorenporträt

Ed Pegg Jr, Alan Schoen, Tom Rodgers

Inhaltsangabe

In Memoriam. Frank Harary. Harary. Spin a Tale. The Ig Nobel Prizes. Martin
Gardner and Paperfolding. . . . Nothing but Confusion? Anamorphoses with
Double Meaning. Ponder a Puzzle. Peg Solitaire with Diagonal Jumps. The
Grand Time Sudoku and the Law of Leftovers. Patulous Pegboard Polygons.
Beamer Variant. Packing Equal Circles in a Square. Bring a Friend.
Uncountable Sets and an Infinite Real Number Game. The Cyclic Butler
University Game. Misere Play of G-A-R-D-N-E-R, the G4G7 Heptagon Game.
Play with Numbers. The Association Method for Solving Certain Coin-Weighing
Problems. The Art of Ready Reckoning. Spherical Algebra. Mathematical Idol.
The Elevator Problem. Take a Shape. Jordan as a Jordan Curve. Wang Tiles,
Dynamical Systems, and Beatty Difference Sequences. The Trilobite and
Cross. Orderly Tangles Revisited. Quasi-Periodic Essays in Architectural
and Musical Form. Ellipses. Dances with Tangrams (and without Wolves). Two
Special Polyhedra among the Regular Toroids.