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The Lighter Side of Mathematics: Proceedings of the Eugene Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and Its History
 
Richard K. Guy
Robert E. Woodrow
The Lighter Side of Mathematics
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5731-0
Product Code:  SPEC/11.E
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The Lighter Side of Mathematics: Proceedings of the Eugene Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and Its History
Richard K. Guy
Robert E. Woodrow
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5731-0
Product Code:  SPEC/11.E
List Price: $50.00
MAA Member Price: $37.50
AMS Member Price: $37.50
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  • Book Details
     
     
    Spectrum
    Volume: 11; 1994; 367 pp

    In August of 1986, a special conference on recreational mathematics was held at the University of Calgary to celebrate the founding of the Strens Collection. Leading practitioners of recreational mathematics from around the world gathered in Calgary to share with each other the joy and spirit of play that is to be found in recreational mathematics. It would be difficult to find a better collection of wonderful articles on recreational mathematics by a more distinguished group of authors. If you are interested in tessellations, Escher, tilings, Rubik's cube, pentominoes, games, puzzles, the arbelos, Henry Dudeney, or change ringing, then this book is for you.
  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Articles
    • The Strens Collection
    • Eugène Louis Charles Marie Strens
    • Part 1. Tiling & Coloring
    • H. S. M. Coxeter and J. F. Rigby — Frieze Patterns, Triangulated Polygons and Dichromatic Symmetry
    • J. A. Eidswick — Is Engel’s Enigma a Cubelike Puzzle?
    • Branko Grünbaum — Metamorphoses of Polygons
    • Douglas M. McKenna — SquaRecurves, E-Tours, Eddies, and Frenzies: Basic Families of Peano Curves on the Square Grid
    • John F. Rigby — Fun with Tessellations
    • D. Schattschneider — Escher: A Mathematician in Spite of Himself
    • Athelstan Spilhaus — Escheresch
    • Daniel Ullman — The Road Coloring Problem
    • Stan Wagon — Fourteen Proofs of a Result About Tiling a Rectangle
    • J. B. Wilker — Tiling $R^3$ with Circles and Disks
    • Part 2. Games & Puzzles
    • Elwyn Berlekamp — Introduction to Blockbusting and Domineering
    • Curtis N. Cooper and Robert E. Kennedy — A Generating Function for the Distribution of the Scores of all Possible Bowling Ganes
    • Curtis N. Cooper and Robert E. Kennedy — Is the Mean Bowling Score Awful?
    • Aviezri S. Fraenkel — Recreation and Depth in Combinatorial Games
    • Recreational Games Displays
    • Aviezri S. Fraenkel — Combinatorial Games
    • Kathy Jones — Combinatorial Toys
    • Mogens Esrom Larsen — Rubik’s Cube—application or illumination of group theory?
    • Andy Liu — Golomb’s Twelve Pentomino Problems
    • Jim Propp — A New Take-Away Game
    • Michael Stueben — Confessions of a Puzzlesmith
    • Jerry Slocum — Puzzles Old & New: Some Historical Notes
    • Part 3. People & Pursuits
    • Leon Bankoff — The Marvelous Arbelos
    • I. Z. Bouwer and W. W. Chernoff — Cluster Pairs of an $n$-Dimensional Cube of Edge Length Two
    • Kenneth J. Falconer — The Ancient English Art of Change Ringing
    • Richard K. Guy — The Strong Law of Small Numbers
    • Heiko Harborth — Match Sticks in the Plane
    • Mogens Esrom Larsen — Misunderstanding My Mazy Mazes May Make Me Miserable
    • Angela Newing — Henry Ernest Dudeney: Britain’s Greatest Puzzlist
    • Victor Pambuccian — From Recreational to Foundational Mathematics
    • Lee C. F. Sallows — Alphamagic Squares
    • Lee C. F. Sallows — Alphamagic Squares: Part II
    • David Singmaster — The Utility of Recreational Mathematics
    • Jordan Stoyanov — The Development of Recreational Mathematics in Bulgaria
    • Herbert Taylor — $V-E+F=2$
    • Samuel Yates — Tracking Titanics
  • Reviews
     
     

    • This volume is one of the best I have ever read in the genre of recreational mathematics...the contributions to this collection...form a wonderful volume, which I wholeheartedly recommend to all enthusiasts of mathematics in general, and recreational mathematics in particular.
      Mathematical Reviews
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    Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
    Accessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
Spectrum
Volume: 11; 1994; 367 pp

In August of 1986, a special conference on recreational mathematics was held at the University of Calgary to celebrate the founding of the Strens Collection. Leading practitioners of recreational mathematics from around the world gathered in Calgary to share with each other the joy and spirit of play that is to be found in recreational mathematics. It would be difficult to find a better collection of wonderful articles on recreational mathematics by a more distinguished group of authors. If you are interested in tessellations, Escher, tilings, Rubik's cube, pentominoes, games, puzzles, the arbelos, Henry Dudeney, or change ringing, then this book is for you.
  • Articles
  • The Strens Collection
  • Eugène Louis Charles Marie Strens
  • Part 1. Tiling & Coloring
  • H. S. M. Coxeter and J. F. Rigby — Frieze Patterns, Triangulated Polygons and Dichromatic Symmetry
  • J. A. Eidswick — Is Engel’s Enigma a Cubelike Puzzle?
  • Branko Grünbaum — Metamorphoses of Polygons
  • Douglas M. McKenna — SquaRecurves, E-Tours, Eddies, and Frenzies: Basic Families of Peano Curves on the Square Grid
  • John F. Rigby — Fun with Tessellations
  • D. Schattschneider — Escher: A Mathematician in Spite of Himself
  • Athelstan Spilhaus — Escheresch
  • Daniel Ullman — The Road Coloring Problem
  • Stan Wagon — Fourteen Proofs of a Result About Tiling a Rectangle
  • J. B. Wilker — Tiling $R^3$ with Circles and Disks
  • Part 2. Games & Puzzles
  • Elwyn Berlekamp — Introduction to Blockbusting and Domineering
  • Curtis N. Cooper and Robert E. Kennedy — A Generating Function for the Distribution of the Scores of all Possible Bowling Ganes
  • Curtis N. Cooper and Robert E. Kennedy — Is the Mean Bowling Score Awful?
  • Aviezri S. Fraenkel — Recreation and Depth in Combinatorial Games
  • Recreational Games Displays
  • Aviezri S. Fraenkel — Combinatorial Games
  • Kathy Jones — Combinatorial Toys
  • Mogens Esrom Larsen — Rubik’s Cube—application or illumination of group theory?
  • Andy Liu — Golomb’s Twelve Pentomino Problems
  • Jim Propp — A New Take-Away Game
  • Michael Stueben — Confessions of a Puzzlesmith
  • Jerry Slocum — Puzzles Old & New: Some Historical Notes
  • Part 3. People & Pursuits
  • Leon Bankoff — The Marvelous Arbelos
  • I. Z. Bouwer and W. W. Chernoff — Cluster Pairs of an $n$-Dimensional Cube of Edge Length Two
  • Kenneth J. Falconer — The Ancient English Art of Change Ringing
  • Richard K. Guy — The Strong Law of Small Numbers
  • Heiko Harborth — Match Sticks in the Plane
  • Mogens Esrom Larsen — Misunderstanding My Mazy Mazes May Make Me Miserable
  • Angela Newing — Henry Ernest Dudeney: Britain’s Greatest Puzzlist
  • Victor Pambuccian — From Recreational to Foundational Mathematics
  • Lee C. F. Sallows — Alphamagic Squares
  • Lee C. F. Sallows — Alphamagic Squares: Part II
  • David Singmaster — The Utility of Recreational Mathematics
  • Jordan Stoyanov — The Development of Recreational Mathematics in Bulgaria
  • Herbert Taylor — $V-E+F=2$
  • Samuel Yates — Tracking Titanics

  • This volume is one of the best I have ever read in the genre of recreational mathematics...the contributions to this collection...form a wonderful volume, which I wholeheartedly recommend to all enthusiasts of mathematics in general, and recreational mathematics in particular.
    Mathematical Reviews
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