Homage to a Pied Puzzler by Alan Schoen,Tom Rodgers,Ed Pegg Jr

By Alan Schoen,Tom Rodgers,Ed Pegg Jr

The culture of honoring Martin Gardner keeps with this edited choice of articles by means of those that were encouraged through Gardner to go into arithmetic, to go into magic, to deliver magic into their arithmetic, or to deliver arithmetic into their magic. Contributing authors contain world-leading puzzle designers, puzzle creditors, mathematicians, and magicians.

The number of articles comprises card or magic methods (with a mathematical trick in the back of them), the heritage at the back of given puzzles, mathematically fascinating items concerning the quantity seven, and puzzles for the reader to resolve. particular puzzles mentioned comprise tangram, 14-15 Puzzle, seven-coloring of the torus, packing circles, loopy Elephant Dance, and more!

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