The mathematical Gardner /
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Boston : Belmont, Calif. :
Prindle, Weber & Schmidt ; Wadsworth International,
1981.
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Table of Contents:
- Games: Anyone for twopins? / Richard K. Guy
- Pretzel solitaire as a pastime for the lonely mathematician / N.G. de Bruijn
- Some remarks about a hex problem / Claude Berge
- A Kriegspiel endgame / Jim Boyce
- Mental poker / Adi Shamar, Ronald L. Rivest, Leonard M. Adleman
- Cheap, middling, or dear / V. Chvátal
- A random hopscotch problem, or how to make Johnny read more / David Berengut
- Geometry: Wreaths of tangent circles / Solomon W. Golomb
- Bicycle tubes inside out / Herbert Taylor
- Flexing surfaces / Robert Connelly
- Planting trees / Stephan Burr
- Slicing it thin / Howard Eves
- How did Pappus do it? / Leon Bankoff
- Two-dimensional tiling: Fault-free tiling of rectangles / R.L. Graham
- Disections into equilateral triangles / W.T. Tutte
- In praise of amateurs / Doris Schattschneider
- Some problems on plane tiling / Branko Grünbaum, G.C. Shephard
- Angels and devils / H.S.M. Coxeter
- Three-dimensional tiling: Packing problems and inequalities / D.G. Hoffman
- Can cubes avoid meeting face to face? / Raphael M. Robinson
- Packing handed pentacubes / C.J. Bouwkamp
- My life among the polyominoes / David A. Klarner
- Fun and problems: Disappearances / Donald E. Knuth
- Noneuclidean harmony / Scott Kim
- Magic Cuboctahedrons / Charles W. Trigg
- Games, graphs, and galleries / Ross Honsberger
- Probing the rotating table / William T. Laaser, Lyle Ramshaw
- Numbers and coding theory: Supernatural numbers / Donald E. Knuth
- The graph theorists who count
- and what they count / Ronald Read
- Error-correcting codes and cryptography / N.J.A. Sloane.