The Lighter Side Mathematics (Record no. 14813)
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| fixed length control field | 160616s1994 000 0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 088385516X |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 51 |
| Item number | GUY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Guy, Richard K. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Lighter Side Mathematics |
| Sub Title | proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics & Its History |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Wasington |
| Name of publisher | The mathematical association of America |
| Year of publication | 1994 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | viii,367 p. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Spectrum series |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Frieze patterns, triangulated polygons and dichromatic symmetry / H.S.M. Coxeter & J.F. Rigby<br/>Is Engel's enigma a cubelike puzzle? / J.A. Eidswick<br/>Metamorphoses of polygons / Branko Grünbaum<br/>SquaRecurves, E-tours, eddies, and frenzies: basic families of peano curves on the square grid / Douglas M. McKenna<br/>Fun with tessellations / John F. Rigby<br/>Escher: a mathematician in spite of himself / D. Schattschneider<br/>Escheresch / Athelstan Spilhaus<br/>The road coloring problem / Daniel Ullman<br/>Fourteen proofs of a result about tiling a rectangle / Stan Wagon<br/>Tiling R with circles and disks / J.B. Wilker. Introduction to blockbusting and domineering / Elwyn Berlekamp<br/>A generating function for the distribution of the scores of all possible bowling games ; Is the mean bowling score awful? / Curtis N. Cooper & Robert E. Kennedy<br/>Recreation and depth in combinatorial games / Aviezri S. Fraenkel<br/>Recreational dames displays. Combinatorial games / Aviezri S. Fraenkel ; Combinatorial toys / Kathy Jones<br/>Rubik's cube: application or illumination of group theory? / Mogens Esrom Larsen<br/>Golomb's twelve pentomino problems / Andy Liu<br/>A new-take away game / Jim Propp<br/>Confessions of a puzzlesmith / Michael Stueben<br/>Puzzles old & new: some historical notes / Jerry Slocum. The marvelous Arbelos / Leon Bankoff<br/>Cluster pairs of an n-dimensional cube of edge length two / I.Z. Bouwer & W.W. Chernoff<br/>The ancient English art of change ringing / Kenneth J. Falconer<br/>The strong law of small numbers / Richard K. Guy<br/>Match sticks in the plane / Heiko Harborth<br/>Misunderstanding my mazy mazes may make me miserable / Mogens Esrom Larsen<br/>Henry Ernest Dudeney: Britain's greatest puzzlist / Angela Newing<br/>From recreational to foundational mathematics / Victor Pambuccian<br/>Alphamagic squares ; Alphamagic squares: part II / Lee C.F. Sallows<br/>The utility of recreational mathematics / David Singmaster<br/>The development of recreational mathematics in Bulgaria / Jordan Stoyanov<br/>V-E+F=2 / Herbert Taylor<br/>Tracking titanics / Samuel Yates |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Recreational mathematics is thriving at the University of Calgary. Some would say that it is a hotbed for recreational mathematics, for it is the home of the Strens Collection of recreational mathematics materials. The Sterns Collection is the most complete library of recreational mathematics in the world. In August of 1986, a special conference on recreational mathematics was held at the University of Calgary to celebrate the founding of the Sterns 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. Martin Gardner says of recreational mathematics: "I don't know of any better way to hook the interests of students. I think teachers are beginning to discover that it does have pedagogical value." The papers in this volume, the proceedings of that conference, represent a veritable treasure trove of recreational mathematics by a star-studded cast: leon Bankoff, Elwyn Berlekamp, H.S.M. Coxeter, Ken Falconer, Branko Grünbaum, Richard Guy, Doris Schattschneider, David Singmaster, Athelstan Spilhaus, Stan Wagon and many others. You will not find another collection of wonderful articles on recreational mathematics by a more distinguished group of authors. If you are interested in tessellations, Escher, tiling, Rubik's cube, pentominoes, games, puzzles, the arbelos, Henry Dudeney, ro change ringing, then this book is a must for you. If you believe that recreational mathematics must be mathematics that is fun, then look no further, for The Lighter Side of Mathematics is full of fun. -- from back cover |
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| Topical Term | Actes de congrès |
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| Topical Term | Conference papers and proceedings |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Woodrow, Robert E. |
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| IMSc Library | IMSc Library | First Floor, Rack No: 26, Shelf No: 18 | 51 GUY | 38809 | BOOKS |