Tribute to a mathemagician

Barry Cipra, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Tom Rodgers9781568812045, 1568812043

The tradition of a publication based on the Gathering for Gardner continues with this new carefully selected and edited collection in which Martin Gardner and friends inspire and entertain.
The contributors to this volume—virtually a list of Who’s Who in the World of Puzzles—trace their inspiration to Martin Gardner’s puzzle column in Scientific American and to his contributions to the world of recreational mathematics.
Tribute to a Mathemagician contains an author index for the two previous books in the collection of books based on the Gatherings for Gardner.
Sample puzzles and games include:
– Tripos – Black Jack – Chinese ceramic puzzle vessels – Paper folding – Mongolian interlocking puzzles – Rolling block puzzles – Sliding puzzles – Cryptic crosswords – The Panex puzzle – Polyonimo puzzles – and more

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Table of contents :
Title page ……Page 1
Date-line ……Page 2
Contents ……Page 3
Preface ……Page 7
Edward Hordern (1941-2000). James Dalgety ……Page 9
Edward Hordern—Puzzle Solver Extraordinaire. Dick Hess ……Page 15
Nob Yoshigahara. Jerry Slocum ……Page 17
Nobuyuki Yoshigahara (1936-2004) ……Page 29
Part I Braintreasures ……Page 38
Chinese Ceramic Puzzle Vessels. Norman L. Sandfield ……Page 40
Mongolian Interlocking Puzzles. Jerry Slocum and Frans de Vreugd ……Page 48
Part II Brainticklers ……Page 58
Fold-and-Cut Magic. Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine ……Page 60
The Three-Legged Hourglass. M. Oskar van Deventer ……Page 68
The Incredible Swimmer Puzzle. Stewart Coffin ……Page 70
The Butler University Game. Rebecca G. Wahl ……Page 74
Vive Recreational Mathematics. Underwood Dudley ……Page 78
Godelian Puzzles. Raymond Smullyan ……Page 86
Part III Brainteasers ……Page 92
A Bouquet of Brainteasers. Chris Maslanka ……Page 94
Sliding-Coin Puzzles. Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine ……Page 100
Under specified Puzzles. David Wolfe and Susan Hirshberg ……Page 110
A Cryptic Crossword Puzzle in Honor of Martin Gardner. Robert A. Hearn ……Page 112
Absolute Martin. J. Carey Lauder ……Page 118
Part IV Braintempters ……Page 120
A History of the Ten-Square. A. Ross Eckler ……Page 122
Configuration Games. Jeremiah Farrell, Martin Gardner, and Thomas Rodgers ……Page 130
Blackjack Stacks. Harold Cataquet ……Page 138
Five Algorithmic Puzzles. Peter Winkler ……Page 146
Polyform Patterns. Ed Pegg, Jr ……Page 156
Another Pentomino Problem. Solomon W. Golomb ……Page 164
Polyomino Number Theory (III). Uldis Barbans, Andris Cibulis, Gilbert Lee, Andy Liu, and Robert Wainwright ……Page 168
A Golomb Gallimaufry. Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell, and Thomas Rodgers ……Page 174
Part V Braintaunters ……Page 180
The Panex Puzzle. Mark Manasse, Danny Sleator, Victor K. Wei, and Nick Baxter ……Page 182
Upstart Puzzles. Dennis Shasha ……Page 200
The Complexity of Sliding-Block Puzzles and Plank Puzzles. Robert A. Hearn ……Page 210
Hinged Dissections: Swingers, Twisters, Flappers. Greg N. Frederickson ……Page 222
Part VI Braintools ……Page 234
The Burnside Di-Lemma: Combinatorics and Puzzle Symmetry. Nick Baxter ……Page 236
Designing Puzzles with a Computer. Bill Cutler ……Page 248
Origami Approximate Geometric Constructions. Robert J. Lang ……Page 260
Rolling Block Mazes. M. Oskar van Deventer ……Page 278
Constructing Domino Portraits. Robert Bosch ……Page 288
Index by Author ……Page 294
Plate II ……Page 300
Plate V ……Page 301
Plate VI ……Page 302
Plate X ……Page 303