The Lighter Side of Mathematics
R.KGuy and R.E.Woodrow, eds.
Contents
Preface
The Strens Collection
Eugene Louis Charles Marie Strens
Part 1: Tiling & Coloring
Frieze Patterns, Triangulated Polygons and Dichromatic Symmetry, H. S. M. Coxeter & J. E Rigby
Is Engel's Enigma a Cubelike Puzzle? J. A. Eidswick
Metamorphoses of Polygons, Branko Grunbaum
SquaRecurves, E-Tours, Eddies, and Frenzies: Basic Families of Peano Curves on the Square Grid, Douglas M. McKenna
Fun with Tessellations, John E Rigby
Escher: A Mathematician in Spite of Himself, D. Schattschneider Escheresch,Athelstan Spilhaus
The Road Coloring Problem, Daniel Ullman
Fourteen Proofs of a Result About Tiling a Rectangle, Stan Wagon
Tiling R3 with Circles and Disks, J. B. Wilker
Part 2: Games & Puzzles
Introduction to Blockbusting and Domineering, Elwyn Berlekamp
A Generating Function for the Distribution of the Scores of all Possible Bowling Games Curtis N. Cooper & Robert E. Kennedy
Is the Mean Bowling Score Awful? Curtis N. Cooper & Robert E. Kennedy
Recreation and Depth in Combinatorial Games, Aviezri S. Fraenkel
Recreational Games Displays Combinatorial Games, Aviezri S. Fraenkel
Combinatorial Toys, Kathy Jones
Rubik's Cube-application or illumination of group theory? Mogens Esrom Larsen
Golomb’s Twelve Pentomino Problems, Andy Liu
A New Take-Away Game, Jim Propp
Confessions of a Puzzlesmith, Michael Stueben
Puzzles Old & New: Some Historical Notes, Jerry Slocum
Part 3: People & Pursuits
The Marvelous Arbelos, Leon Bankoff
Cluster Pairs of an n-Dimensional Cube of Edge Length Two, L. Z. Bouwer & W. W. Chernoff
The Ancient English Art of Change Ringing, Kenneth J. Falconer
The Strong Law of Small Numbers, Richard K. Guy
Match Sticks in the Plane, Heiko Harborth
Misunderstanding My Mazy Mazes May Make Me Miserable, Mogens Esrom Larsen
Henry Ernest Dudeney: Britain's Greatest Puzzlist, Angela Newing
From Recreational to Foundational Mathematics, Victor Pambuccian
Alphamagic Squares, Lee C. E. Sallows
Alphamagic Squares: Part II, Lee C. E. Sallows
The Utility of Recreational Mathematics, David Singmaster
The Development of Recreational Mathematics in Bulgaria, Jordan Stoyanov
V - E + F = 2, Herbert Taylor
Tracking Titanics, Samuel Yates
List of Conference Participants
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