The lighter side of mathematics : proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics & its History /

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Autor Corporativo: Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics & Its History University of Calgary)
Otros Autores: Guy, Richard K. (Editor ), Woodrow, Robert E., 1948- (Editor )
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Idioma:English
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c1994.
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245 1 4 |a The lighter side of mathematics :  |b proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics & its History /  |c edited by Richard K. Guy & Robert E. Woodrow. 
260 |a [Washington, D.C.] :  |b Mathematical Association of America,  |c c1994. 
300 |a viii, 367 p. :  |b il. (algunas col.) ;  |c 28 cm. 
440 0 |a MAA spectrum 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas. 
505 0 |a 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 $R3$ with circles and disks. 
505 0 |a 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 games -- Curtis N. Cooper and Robert E. Kennedy, Is the mean bowling score awful? -- Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Recreation and depth in combinatorial games -- 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. 
505 0 |a 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. II. More adventures with abacus and alphabet, extending explorations into the untrodden realms of computational logology -- 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. 
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246 3 0 |a Proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics & its History 
650 0 |a Mathematical recreations  |x Congresses. 
600 1 7 |a Escher, M. C.  |q (Maurits Cornelis),  |d 1898-1972. 
600 1 7 |a Dudeney, Henry Ernest,  |d 1857-1930. 
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