Table of Contents

Part I: Braintreasures 1. Chinese Ceramic Puzzle Vessels 2. Mongolian Interlocking Puzzles Part II: Brainticklers 3. Fold-and-Cut Magic 4. The Three-Legged Hourglass 5. The Incredible Swimmer Puzzle 6. The Butler University Game 7. Vive Recreational Mathematics 8. Godelian Puzzles Part III: Brainteasers 9. A Bouquet of Brainteasers 10. Sliding-Coin Puzzles 11. Underspecified Puzzles 12. A Cryptic Crossword Puzzle in Honor of Martin Gardner 13. Absolute Martin Part IV: Braintempters 14. A History of the Ten-Square 15. Configuration Games 16. BlackJack Stacks 17. Five Algorithmic Puzzles 18. Polyform Patterns 19. Another Pentomino Problem 20. Polyomino Number Theory (III) 21. A Golomb Gallimaufry Part V: Braintaunters 22. The Panex Puzzle 23. Upstart Puzzles 24. The Complexity of Sliding-Block Puzzles and Plank Puzzles 25. Hinged Dissections: Swingers, Twisters, Flappers 26. Part VI: Braintools 27. The Burnside Di-Lemma: Combinatorics and Puzzle Symmetry 28. Designing Puzzles with a Computer 29. Origami Approximate Geometric Constructions 30. Rolling Block Mazes 31. Constructing Domino Portraits

About the Author

Cipra, Barry; Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L.; Rodgers, Tom

Reviews

" "There is something in the book for mathematicians from high school level and up ... Highly Recommended." -Warren Atkins, The Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, December 2002 "With its rich diversity of material, this book could be used to challenge students from ages 10 to 100." -Mathematics Teacher, July 2003 "This volume is a tribute to the human ingenuity that creates new and tantalizing conundrums, drawing on interesting mathematics and generating challenging unsolved problems." -E.J. Barbaeu, Mathematiacl Reviews, July 2003 "This attractive, advanced sampling introduces recent developments and some key personalities and significant browsing for the teacher, with potential to spark and nurture student growth." -Harold Don Allen, Mathematics Teacher, September 2005 "The ingenuity and depth of mathematics represented in this collection is impressive." -E.J. Barbeau, Mathematiacl Reviews, March 2005 "This is a wonderful book of puzzles and other pieces of recreational mathematics..." -EMS Newsletter, June 2005 "... even well-known puzzles retain their power, as was made clear again and again last month at the seventh "Gathering for Gardner." These conferences of mathematicians, puzzlers, game-players and magicians at the Ritz-Carlton here began as personal tributes to Martin Gardner, Scientific American's legendary Mathematical Games columnist, and now take place without the master's presence (he is 91). During four days of talks and tricks, the oldest puzzles mixed freely with the newest." -Edward Rothstein, The New York Times , April 2006 "This is a fascinating book, truly in the spirit of Gardner's style and contains much that is new ... I highly recommend it both for your own personal library and the school library." -Ron Knott, The Mathematical Gazette, November 2006 "I highly recommend this book to anyone who already knows how truly fun it can be to do mathematics and also to those who have yet to discover it." -Jacob McMillen, Emory University, Math Horizons, February 2008 "Tribute to a Mathematician is a 'must' for dedicated puzzle enthusiasts, mathematicians, and gaming enthusiasts of all kinds and categories!" -Willis M. Buhle, Reviewer's Bookwatch, March 2005 "This is a very worthy book for those who enjoy mathematical recreations, magic tricks, and puzzles." -Zentralblatt MATH, February 2009"