Puzzlers' tribute : a feast for the mind / / edited by David Wolfe and Tom Rodgers |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 420 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 793.7/4 |
Soggetto topico | Mathematical recreations |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-429-06240-0
1-4398-6410-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part PART I: The Toast, Tributes -- chapter Harry Eng: A Tribute -- chapter The Eng Coin Vise -- chapter David A. Klarner?A Memorial Tribute -- chapter David Klarner's Pentacube Towers -- chapter Some Reminiscences of David Klarner -- chapter Just for the Mel of It -- chapter Mel Stover -- chapter The Stack of Quarters -- part PART II: Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader -- chapter Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner -- chapter A Clock Puzzle -- chapter 3 Problems -- chapter A Scrub Tile Puzzle -- chapter All Tied up in Naughts -- chapter Jumping Cards -- chapter 6 Off-beat Chess Problems -- chapter 4 Squares for Squares -- chapter PORT III: Smoked Ham: A Course in Magic -- part PART IV: Chef's Caprice -- chapter Coincidences -- chapter The Bard and the Bible -- chapter Inversions: Lettering with a Mathematical Twist -- chapter All You Need Is Cards -- chapter Calendrical Conundrums -- chapter 2 Poems -- part PART V: Wild Game -- chapter What Makes the Puzzler Tick? -- chapter Diabolical Puzzles from Japan -- chapter How to Outwit the Parity -- chapter Inflated Pentominoes -- chapter Pixel Polyominoes -- chapter Pythagorean Puzzle -- chapter Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle -- chapter A Classification of Burrs -- chapter Paving Mazes -- chapter Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s -- chapter Interlocking Spirals -- chapter The Partridge Puzzles -- part PART VI: Mathematical Entrees -- chapter Fermat's Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension -- chapter Games People Don't Play -- chapter Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists -- chapter How Flies Fly: The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves -- chapter Some Tricks and Paradoxes -- part PART VII: Mathematical Treats -- chapter How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World -- chapter Variations on a Transcendental Theme -- chapter Magic -- chapter The Beer Bottles Problem -- chapter The Fractal Society -- chapter 4 Games for Gardner -- chapter The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares -- chapter Sum-Free Games -- chapter Shadows and Plugs -- chapter A Neglected Trigonometric Gem -- chapter Kotani's Ant Problem -- chapter Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454382803321 |
Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Puzzlers' tribute : a feast for the mind / / edited by David Wolfe and Tom Rodgers |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 420 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 793.7/4 |
Soggetto topico | Mathematical recreations |
ISBN |
0-429-06240-0
1-4398-6410-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part PART I: The Toast, Tributes -- chapter Harry Eng: A Tribute -- chapter The Eng Coin Vise -- chapter David A. Klarner?A Memorial Tribute -- chapter David Klarner's Pentacube Towers -- chapter Some Reminiscences of David Klarner -- chapter Just for the Mel of It -- chapter Mel Stover -- chapter The Stack of Quarters -- part PART II: Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader -- chapter Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner -- chapter A Clock Puzzle -- chapter 3 Problems -- chapter A Scrub Tile Puzzle -- chapter All Tied up in Naughts -- chapter Jumping Cards -- chapter 6 Off-beat Chess Problems -- chapter 4 Squares for Squares -- chapter PORT III: Smoked Ham: A Course in Magic -- part PART IV: Chef's Caprice -- chapter Coincidences -- chapter The Bard and the Bible -- chapter Inversions: Lettering with a Mathematical Twist -- chapter All You Need Is Cards -- chapter Calendrical Conundrums -- chapter 2 Poems -- part PART V: Wild Game -- chapter What Makes the Puzzler Tick? -- chapter Diabolical Puzzles from Japan -- chapter How to Outwit the Parity -- chapter Inflated Pentominoes -- chapter Pixel Polyominoes -- chapter Pythagorean Puzzle -- chapter Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle -- chapter A Classification of Burrs -- chapter Paving Mazes -- chapter Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s -- chapter Interlocking Spirals -- chapter The Partridge Puzzles -- part PART VI: Mathematical Entrees -- chapter Fermat's Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension -- chapter Games People Don't Play -- chapter Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists -- chapter How Flies Fly: The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves -- chapter Some Tricks and Paradoxes -- part PART VII: Mathematical Treats -- chapter How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World -- chapter Variations on a Transcendental Theme -- chapter Magic -- chapter The Beer Bottles Problem -- chapter The Fractal Society -- chapter 4 Games for Gardner -- chapter The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares -- chapter Sum-Free Games -- chapter Shadows and Plugs -- chapter A Neglected Trigonometric Gem -- chapter Kotani's Ant Problem -- chapter Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782049303321 |
Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Puzzlers' tribute : a feast for the mind / / edited by David Wolfe and Tom Rodgers |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 420 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 793.7/4 |
Soggetto topico | Mathematical recreations |
ISBN |
0-429-06240-0
1-4398-6410-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part PART I: The Toast, Tributes -- chapter Harry Eng: A Tribute -- chapter The Eng Coin Vise -- chapter David A. Klarner?A Memorial Tribute -- chapter David Klarner's Pentacube Towers -- chapter Some Reminiscences of David Klarner -- chapter Just for the Mel of It -- chapter Mel Stover -- chapter The Stack of Quarters -- part PART II: Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader -- chapter Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner -- chapter A Clock Puzzle -- chapter 3 Problems -- chapter A Scrub Tile Puzzle -- chapter All Tied up in Naughts -- chapter Jumping Cards -- chapter 6 Off-beat Chess Problems -- chapter 4 Squares for Squares -- chapter PORT III: Smoked Ham: A Course in Magic -- part PART IV: Chef's Caprice -- chapter Coincidences -- chapter The Bard and the Bible -- chapter Inversions: Lettering with a Mathematical Twist -- chapter All You Need Is Cards -- chapter Calendrical Conundrums -- chapter 2 Poems -- part PART V: Wild Game -- chapter What Makes the Puzzler Tick? -- chapter Diabolical Puzzles from Japan -- chapter How to Outwit the Parity -- chapter Inflated Pentominoes -- chapter Pixel Polyominoes -- chapter Pythagorean Puzzle -- chapter Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle -- chapter A Classification of Burrs -- chapter Paving Mazes -- chapter Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s -- chapter Interlocking Spirals -- chapter The Partridge Puzzles -- part PART VI: Mathematical Entrees -- chapter Fermat's Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension -- chapter Games People Don't Play -- chapter Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists -- chapter How Flies Fly: The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves -- chapter Some Tricks and Paradoxes -- part PART VII: Mathematical Treats -- chapter How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World -- chapter Variations on a Transcendental Theme -- chapter Magic -- chapter The Beer Bottles Problem -- chapter The Fractal Society -- chapter 4 Games for Gardner -- chapter The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares -- chapter Sum-Free Games -- chapter Shadows and Plugs -- chapter A Neglected Trigonometric Gem -- chapter Kotani's Ant Problem -- chapter Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825938703321 |
Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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