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Title:

The mathematics of various entertaining subjects : research in recreational math / edited by Jennifer Beineke & Jason Rosenhouse ; with a foreword by Raymond Smullyan.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xv, 272 pages : some color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Mathematical recreations--Research.

Other Authors:

Beineke, Jennifer Elaine, 1969- editor.
Rosenhouse, Jason, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

PART V Representing Numbers Using Fibonacci Variants / Should You Be Happy? / Stephen K. Lucas. One-Move Puzzles with Mathematical Content / Anany Levitin -- Minimalist Approaches to Figurative Maze Design / Robert Bosch, Tim Chartier, and Michael Rowan -- Some ABCs of Graphs and Games / Jennifer Beineke and Lowell Beineke -- PART II PROBLEMS INSPIRED BY CLASSIC PUZZLES: Solving the Tower of Hanoi with Random Moves / Max A. Alekseyev and Toby Berger -- Groups Associated to Tetraflexagons / Julie Beier and Carolyn Yackel -- Parallel Weighings of Coins / Tanya Khovanova -- Analysis of Crossword Puzzle Difficulty Using a Random Graph Process / John K. McSweeney -- From the Outside In: Solving Generalizations of the Slothouber-Graatsma-Conway Puzzle / Derek Smith -- PART III PLAYING CARDS: Gallia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Quattuor / Neil Calkin and Colm Mulcahy -- Heartless Poker / Dominic Lanphier and Laura Taalman -- An Introduction to Gilbreath Numbers / Robert W. Vallin -- PART IV GAMES: Tic-tac-toe on Affine Planes / Maureen T. Carroll and Steven T. Dougherty -- Error Detection and Correction Using SET / Gary Gordon and Elizabeth McMahon -- Connection Games and Sperneŕs Lemma / David Molnar -- PART V FIBONACCI NUMBERS: The Cookie Monster Problem / Leigh Marie Braswell and Tanya Khovanova -- Representing Numbers Using Fibonacci Variants / Stephen K. Lucas.

ISBN:

0691164037
9780691164038

OCLC:

(OCoLC)935697065

LCCN:

2015945218

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)