Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner (Hardcover)

Foreword /Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers -- I personal Magic -- Martin Gardner: A “Documentary” /Dana Richards -- Ambrose, Gardner, and Doyle /Raymond Smullyan -- A Truth Learned Early /Carl Pomerance -- Martin Gardner = Mint! Grand! Rare! /Jeremiah Farrell -- Three Limericks: On Space, Time, and Speed /Tim Rowett -- II puzzlers -- A Maze with Rules /Robert Abbott -- Biblical Ladders /Donald E. Knuth -- Card Game Trivia /Stewart Tunic -- Creative Puzzle Thinking /Nob Yoshigahara -- Number Play, Calculators, and Card Tricks: Mathemagical Black Holes /Michael W. Ecker -- Puzzles from Around the World /Richard I Hess -- O’Beirne's Hexiamond /Richard K. Guy -- Japanese Tangram (The Sei Shonagon Pieces) /Shigeo Takagi -- How a Tangram Cat Happily Turns into the Pink Panther /Bernhard Wiezorke -- Polly’s Flagstones /Stewart Coffin -- Those Peripatetic Pentominoes /Kate Jones -- Self-Designing Tetraflexagons /Robert E. Neale -- The Odyssey of the Figure Eight Puzzle /Stewart Coffin -- Metagrobolizers of Wire /Rick Irby -- Beautiful but Wrong: The Floating Hourglass Puzzle /Scot Morns -- Cube Puzzles /Jeremiah Farrell -- The Nine Color Puzzle /Sivy Fahn -- Twice: A Sliding Block Puzzle /Edward Hordern -- Planar Burrs /M. Oskar van Deventer -- Block-Packing Jambalaya /Bill Cutler -- Classification of Mechanical Puzzles and Physical Objects Related to Puzzles /James Dalgety and Edward Hordern -- 111 Mathgmagies -- A Curious Paradox /Raymond Smullyan -- A Powerful Procedure for Proving Practical Propositions /Solomon W. Golomb -- Misfiring Tasks /Ken Knowlton -- Drawing de Bruijn Graphs /Herbert Taylor -- Computer Analysis of Sprouts /David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator -- Strange New Life Forms: Update /Bill Gosper -- Hollow Mazes /M. Oskai' van Deventer -- Some Diophantine Recreations /David Singmaster -- Who Wins Misere Hex? /Jeffrey Lagarias and Daniel Sleator -- An Update on Odd Neighbors and Odd Neighborhoods /Leslie E. Shader -- Point Mirror Reflection /M. Oskar van Deventer -- How Random Are 3x + 1 Function Iterates? /Jeffrey C. Laganas.