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1 online resource (444 pages) |
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text file |
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""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""In Memoriam""; ""A Greeting to Martin Gardner""; ""The Toast: Tributes""; ""Harry Eng: A Tribute""; ""The Eng Coin Vise""; ""David A. Klarner�A Memorial Tribute""; ""David Klarner�s Pentacube Towers""; ""Some Reminiscences of David Klarner""; ""Just for the Mel of It""; ""Mel Stover""; ""The Stack of Quarters""; ""Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader""; ""Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner""; ""A Clock Puzzle""; ""Three Problems""; ""A Scrub Tile Puzzle""; ""All Tied up in Naughts""; ""Jumping Cards""; ""Six Off-beat Chess Problems"" |
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""Four Squares for Squares""""Smoked Ham: A Course in Magic""; ""It�s All about Astonishment""; ""Shooting Craps Today""; ""The Transcendental Knot""; ""The Brazilian Knot Trick""; ""Mental Match-up""; ""A Labyrinth in a Labyrinth""; ""Paradox Squares Force""; ""A Face in the Shadows""; ""A Card Vanishing in a Nut""; ""Casey at the Fox""; ""Sleight of Hand with Playing Cards prior to Scot�s Discoverie""; ""Cubist Magic""; ""��Impossible�� Foldings""; ""Chef�s Caprice""; ""Coincidences""; ""The Bard and the Bible""; ""Inversions: Lettering with a Mathematical Twist"" |
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""All You Need Is Cards""""Calendrical Conundrums""; ""Two Poems""; ""Wild Game (and Puzzles)""; ""What Makes the Puzzler Tick?""; ""Diabolical Puzzles from Japan""; ""How to Outwit the Parity""; ""Inflated Pentominoes""; ""Pixel Polyominoes""; ""Pythagorean Puzzle""; ""Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle""; ""A Classification of Burrs""; ""Paving Mazes""; ""Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s""; ""Interlocking Spirals""; ""The Partridge Puzzles""; ""Mathematical Entrees""; ""Fermat�s Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension""; ""Games People Don�t Play"" |
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""Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists""""How Flies Fly: The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves""; ""Some Tricks and Paradoxes""; ""Mathematical Treats""; ""How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World""; ""Variations on a Transcendental Theme""; ""Magic ��Squares�� Indeed!""; ""The Beer Bottles Problem""; ""The Fractal Society""; ""Four Games for Gardner""; ""The Sol LeWitt Puzzle: A Problem in 16 Squares""; ""Sum-Free Games""; ""Shadows and Plugs""; ""A Neglected Trigonometric Gem""; ""Kotani�s Ant Problem""; ""Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mathematical recreations.
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Mathematical recreations. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rodgers, Tom, 1943-2012.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wolfe, David. Puzzlers Tribute : A Feast for the Mind. Natick : CRC Press, ©2001 9781568811215 |
| ISBN |
9781439864104 (electronic book) |
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1439864101 (electronic book) |
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