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The Mathematical Gardner

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  1. David A. Klarner
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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Games

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    2. Anyone for Twopins?

      • Richard K. Guy
      Pages 2-15

    4. Some Remarks about a Hex Problem

      • Claude Berge
      Pages 25-27

    5. A Kriegspiel Endgame

      • Jim Boyce
      Pages 28-36

    6. Mental Poker

      • Adi Shamir, Ronald L. Rivest, Leonard M. Adleman
      Pages 37-43

    7. Cheap, Middling or Dear

      • VaÅ¡ek Chvátal
      Pages 44-50

  3. Geometry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Wreaths of Tangent Circles

      • Solomon W. Golomb
      Pages 62-74

    3. Bicycle Tubes Inside Out

      • Herbert Taylor
      Pages 75-78

    4. Flexing Surfaces

      • Robert Connelly
      Pages 79-89

    5. Planting Trees

      • Stefan Burr
      Pages 90-99

    6. Slicing it Thin

      • Howard Eves
      Pages 100-111

    7. How Did Pappus Do It?

      • Leon Bankoff
      Pages 112-118

  4. Numbers and Coding Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Fault-free Tilings of Rectangles

      • R. L. Graham
      Pages 120-126

    3. Dissections into Equilateral Triangles

      • W. T. Tutte
      Pages 127-139

    4. In Praise of Amateurs

      • Doris Schattschneider
      Pages 140-166
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About this book

-~- T he articles in this book are dedicated to Martin Gardner, the world's greatest expositor and popularizer of mathematics. While our papers are confined to this single subject, Gardner's interests and accomplishments have a wide range of subjects. Hence, we have entitled the book the Mathematical Gardner, and would like to see other volumes such as the Magical, the Literary, the Philosophical, or the Scientific Gardner accompany it. Of course, our title is also an appropriate pun, for Martin Gardner's relationship to the mathematical community is similar to a gardener's relationship to a beautiful flower garden. The contributors to this volume comprise only a small part of a large body of mathematicians whose work has been nurtured by its exposition in "Mathematical Games"; Martin's column which appears every month in Scientific American. More than just a mathematical journalist, Martin connects his readers by passing along problems and information and stimulating creative activity. Thus, he is a force behind the scenes as well as a public figure. Two people were particularly helpful in putting this book together.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Mathematical Gardner

  • Editors: David A. Klarner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6686-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Wadsworth International 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-6688-1Published: 12 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-6686-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 382

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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