The lighter side of mathematics : proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics & its History /
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Mathematical Association of America,
c1994.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.