A lifetime of puzzles : a collection of puzzles in honor of Martin Gardner's 90th birthday

Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine e Tom Rodgers

A K Peters/CRC Press | 2008 | 338 páginas | rar - pdf | 6,2 Mb

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Martin Gardner has entertained the world with his puzzles for decades and inspired countless mathematicians and scientists. As he rounds out another decade, his colleagues are paying him tribute with this special collection that contains contributions from some of the most respected puzzlemasters, magicians and mathematicians, including: - John H. Conway - William R. Gosper - Ed Pegg, Jr. - Roger Penrose - Raymond Smullyan - Peter Winkler And of course there is something from the orignal puzzlemaster himself, Martin Gardner.

ContentsPreface ix
I CastaSpell 1
Martin Gardner and His Influence on Magic 3
Christopher Morgan
Martin Gardner—Encore! 15
Prof. M. O’Snart
Low-Down Triple Dealing 29
Colm Mulcahy
Products of Universal Cycles 35
Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham
II In Hindsight 57
Tangram: TheWorld’s First Puzzle Craze 59
Jerry Slocum
De Viribus Quantitatis by Luca Pacioli: The First Recreational Mathematics Book 77
David Singmaster
Magic and Card Tricks in Luca Paciolo’s De Viribus Quantitatis 123
Vanni Bossi
III Move It 131
Railway Mazes 133
Roger Penrose
Mechanical Mazes 149
M. Oskar van Deventer
Insanity Puzzles: Instant and On-the-Spot 157
Rik van Grol
The Adventures of Ant Alice 177
Peter Winkler
IV Fitting In 187
Simplicity 189
Stewart Coffin
Extreme Puzzles 195
Frans de Vreugd
Satterfield’s Tomb 221
David A. Klarner and Wade Satterfield,
edited by Thane E. Plambeck
Computer-Assisted Seashell Mosaics 233
Ken Knowlton
V Speak to Me 243
Memories and Inconsistencies 245
Raymond Smullyan
A Bouquet for Gardner 253
Jeremiah Farrell and Thomas Rodgers
NetWords: A Fascinating New Pencil-Paper Game 265
Mamikon Mnatsakanian, Gwen Roberts, and Martin Gardner
TheWizard Is Always In 273
James Randi
VI Making Arrangements 277
Symmetric Graphs in Mathematical Puzzles 279
Ed Pegg Jr
Martin Gardner and Ticktacktoe 293
Solomon W. Golomb
Scheduling Tennis Doubles Competitions 303
Dick Hess
When MultiplicationMixes Up Digits 313
David Wolfe
Magic, Antimagic, and Talisman Squares 319
Rodolfo Kurchan
Rectangle Arithmetic: Another Slant on Fractions 327
Bill Gosper
About the Authors 345