Wolfe, David; Tom Rodgers: Puzzler's Tribute ©2002 CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group Hardcover, 6x9", 420 pages

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Comments: Illustrated. A publication from the Gathering for Gardner (Martin) contributors with math puzzles, magic, history and more. Reviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss in Genii May, 2002

Contents (From book ToC):

ix Preface
xii A Playful Tribute (Scott Kim)
xii In Memorium
xv A Greeting to Martin Gardner (Sir Arthur Clarke CBE)

1 Part I The Toast Tributes
3 Harry Eng, A Tribute (Mark Setteducati)
7 The Eng Coin Vise (Gary Foshee)
11 David A. Klarner — A Memorial Tribute (Solomon W. Golomb)
15 David Klarner’s Pentacube Towers (C. J. Bouwkamp)
19 Some Reminiscences of David Klarner (David Singmaster)
21 Just for the Mel of It (Max Maven)
29 Mel Stover (Martin Gardner)
33 The Stack of Quarters (Ronald A. Wohl)

35 Part II Tantalizing Appetizers: Challenges for the Reader
37 Crostic in Honor of Martin Gardner (Julie Sussman)
41 A Clock Puzzle (Andy Latto)
43 Three Problems (Andy Liu and Bill Sands)
49 A Scrub Tile Puzzle (Tom Rodgers)
53 All Tied up in Naughts (David Wolfe and Susan Hirshberg)
59 Jumping Cards (Jaime Poniachik)
65 Six Off-beat Chess Problems (John Beasley)
69 Four Squares for Squares (Mogens Esrom Larsen)

73 Part III Smoked Ham, A Course in Magic
75 It’s All about Astonishment (Tyler Barrett)
79 Shooting Craps Today (Russell T. Barnhart)
83 The Transcendental Knot (Ray Hyman)
91 The Brazilian Knot Trick (Maria Elisa Sarraf Borelli and Louis H. Kauffman)
97 Mental Match-up (Meir Yedid)
103 A Labyrinth in a Labyrinth (Gordon Bean)
107 Paradox Squares Force (Robin Robertson)
111 A Face in the Shadows (Larry White)
113 A Card Vanishing in a Nut (Bob Friedhoffer)
115 Casey at the Fox (Ken Fletcher)
119 Sleight of Hand with Playing Cards prior to Scot’s Discoverie (William Kalush)
143 Cubist Magic (Jeremiah Farrell)
147 “Impossible” Foldings (Luc De Smet)

153 Part IV Chef's Caprice
155 Coincidences (A. Ross Eckler)
163 The Bard and the Bible (Allan Slaight)
167 Inversions - Lettering with a Mathematical Twist (Scott Kim)
179 All You Need Is Cards (Brain Epstein)
191 Calendrical Conundrums (John H. Conway and Fred Kochman)
205 Two Poems (Jerry Andrus and Tim Rowett)

207 Part V Wild Game and Puzzles
209 What Makes the Puzzler Tick? (Rick Irby)
213 Diabolical Puzzles from Japan (NOB Yoshigahara, Mineyuki Uyematsu, Minoru Abe)
221 How to Outwit the Parity (Serhiy Grabarchuk)
227 Inflated Pentominoes (Rodolfo Kurchan)
233 Pixel Polyominoes (Kate Jones)
235 Pythagorean Puzzle (Harry Nelson)
239 Classic Six-Piece Burr Puzzle (Robert J. Lang)
245 A Classification of Burrs (Bill Cutler)
253 Paving Mazes (Adrian Fisher)
257 Early Japanese Export Puzzles: 1860s to 1960s (Jerry Slocum and Rik van Grol)
273 Interlocking Spirals (M. Oskar van Deventer)
277 The Partridge Puzzles (Robert Wainwright)

283 Part VI Mathematical Entrees
285 Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Fourth Dimension (James Propp)
301 Games People Don’t Play (Peter Winkler)
315 Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists (Aviezri S. Fraenkel)
237 How Flies Fly, The Curvature and Torsion of Space Curves (Rudy Rucker)
341 Some Tricks and Paradoxes (Raymond Smullyan)

349 Part VII Mathematical Treats
351 How Recreational Mathematics Can Save the World (Keith Devlin)
361 Variations on a Transcendental Theme (Roger Penrose)
365 Magic “Squares” Indeed! (Arthur T. Benjamin and Kan Yasuda)
373 The Beer Bottles Problem (N. G. de Bruijn)
377 The Fractal Society (Clifford Pickover)
383 Four Games for Gardner (Elwyn Berlekamp)
387 The Sol LeWitt Puzzle - A Problem in 16 Squares (Barry Cipra)
395 Sum-Free Games (Frank Harary)
399 Shadows and Plugs (Gwen Roberts)
403 A Neglected Trigonometric Gem (Eli Maor)
407 Kotani’s Ant Problem (Dick Hess)
413 Y2K Problem of Dominoes and Tatami Carpeting (Yoshiyuki Kotani)