Frieze patterns, triangulated polygons and dichromatic symmetry / H.S.M. Coxeter & J.F. Rigby
Is Engel's enigma a cubelike puzzle? / J.A. Eidswick
Metamorphoses of polygons / Branko Grünbaum
SquaRecurves, E-tours, eddies, and frenzies: basic families of peano curves on the square grid / Douglas M. McKenna
Fun with tessellations / John F. Rigby
Escher: a mathematician in spite of himself / D. Schattschneider
Escheresch / Athelstan Spilhaus
The road coloring problem / Daniel Ullman
Fourteen proofs of a result about tiling a rectangle / Stan Wagon
Tiling R with circles and disks / J.B. Wilker. Introduction to blockbusting and domineering / Elwyn Berlekamp
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
Recreation and depth in combinatorial games / Aviezri S. Fraenkel
Recreational dames displays. Combinatorial games / Aviezri S. Fraenkel ; Combinatorial toys / Kathy Jones
Rubik's cube: application or illumination of group theory? / Mogens Esrom Larsen
Golomb's twelve pentomino problems / Andy Liu
A new-take away game / Jim Propp
Confessions of a puzzlesmith / Michael Stueben
Puzzles old & new: some historical notes / Jerry Slocum. The marvelous Arbelos / Leon Bankoff
Cluster pairs of an n-dimensional cube of edge length two / I.Z. Bouwer & W.W. Chernoff
The ancient English art of change ringing / Kenneth J. Falconer
The strong law of small numbers / Richard K. Guy
Match sticks in the plane / Heiko Harborth
Misunderstanding my mazy mazes may make me miserable / Mogens Esrom Larsen
Henry Ernest Dudeney: Britain's greatest puzzlist / Angela Newing
From recreational to foundational mathematics / Victor Pambuccian
Alphamagic squares ; Alphamagic squares: part II / Lee C.F. Sallows
The utility of recreational mathematics / David Singmaster
The development of recreational mathematics in Bulgaria / Jordan Stoyanov
V-E+F=2 / Herbert Taylor
Tracking titanics / Samuel Yates

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