[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2012.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- [Pt.] I. Geometry. The asymmetric propeller / Martin Gardner — The asymmetric propeller revisited / Gillian Saenz, Christopher Jackson, and Ryan Crumley — Bracing regular polygons as we race into the future / Greg W. Frederickson — A platonic sextet for strings / Karl Schaffer — Prince Rupert’s rectangles / Richard P. Jerrard and John E. Wetzel — [pt.] II. Number theory and graph theory. Transcendentals and early birds / Martin Gardner — Squaring, cubing, and cube rooting / Arthur T. Benjamin — Carryless arithmetic mod 10 / David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, and N.J.A. Sloane — Mad tea party cyclic partitions / Robert Bekes, Jean Pedersen, and Bin Sha — The continuing saga of snarks / sarah-marie belcastro — The map-coloring game / Tomasz Bartnicki … [et al.] — [pt.] III. Flexagons and Catalan numbers. It’s okay to be square if you’re a flexagon / Ethan J. Berkove and Jeffrey P. Dumont — The V-flex, triangle orientation, and Catalan numbers in hexaflexagons / Ionut E. Iacob, T. Bruce McLean, and Hua Wang — From hexaflexagons to edge flexagons to point flexagons / Les Pook — Flexagons lead to a Catalan number identity / David Callan — Convergence of a Catalan series / Thomas Koshy and Z. Gao — [pt.] IV. Making things fit. L-tromino tiling of mutilated chessboards / Martin Gardner — Polyomino dissections / Tiina Hohn and Andy Liu — Squaring the plane / Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle — Magic knight’s tours / John Beasley — Some new results on magic hexagrams / Martin Gardner — Finding all solutions to the magic hexagram / Alexander Karabegov and Jason Holland — Triangular numbers, Gaussian integers, and KenKen / John J. Watkins — [pt.] V. Further puzzles and games. Cups and downs / Ian Stewart — 30 years of Bulgarian solitaire / Brian Hopkins — Congo bongo / Hsin-Po Wang — Sam Loyd’s courier problem with Diophantus, Pythagoras, and Martin Gardner / Owen O’Shea — Retrolife and the pawns neighbors / Yossi Elran — RATWYT / Aviezri Fraenkel — [pt.] VI. Cards and probability. Modeling ma
- This book collects articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999 to 2012 that spring from and comment on his work. –P. [4] of cover.
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