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Author:
Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-
Title:
Selected papers on fun & games / Donald E. Knuth.
Publisher:
CSLI Publications,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xvii, 741 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Mathematics--Miscellanea.--Miscellanea.
Computer science--Miscellanea.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
22. 1. Randomness in Music 2. Official Tables of the Potrzebie System -- 3. The Revolutionary Potrzebie -- 4. A MAD Crossword -- 5. Counterexample to a Statement of Peano -- 6. The Complexity of Songs -- 7. TPK in Intercal -- 8. Math Ace: The Plot Thickens -- 9. Billiard Balls in an Equilateral Triangle -- 10. Representing Numbers Using Only One 4 -- 11. Very Magic Squares -- 12. The Gamow-Stern Elevator Problem -- 13. Fibonacci Multiplication -- 14. A Fibonacci-Like Sequence of Composite Numbers -- 15. Transcendental Numbers Based on the Fibonacci Sequence -- 16. Supernatural Numbers -- 17. Mathematical Vanity Plates -- 18. Diamond Signs -- 19. The Orchestra Song -- 20. Gnebbishland -- 21. A Carol for Advent -- 22. Randomness in Music
49. An Earthshaking Announcement. 24. The Triel: A New Solution -- 25. The Computer as Master Mind -- 26. Move It Or Lose It -- 27. Adventure -- 28. Ziegler's Giant Bar -- 29. Th5E4 CH3EmIC2Al2 Ca3P4Er -- 30. N-Ciphered Texts -- 31. Disappearances -- 32. Lewis Carroll's word-ward-ware-dare-dame-game -- 33. Blood, Sweat, and Tears -- 34. Biblical Ladders -- 35. ETAOIN SHRDLU Non-Crashing Sets -- 36. Quadrata Obscura (Hidden Latin Squares) -- 37. 5 ́ 5 ́ 5 Word Cubes by Computer -- 38. Dancing Links -- 39. Nikoli Puzzle Favors -- 40. Uncrossed Knight's Tours -- 41. Celtic Knight's Tours -- 42. Long and Skinny Knight's Tours -- 43. Leaper Graphs -- 44. Number Representations and Dragon Curves -- 45. Mathematics and Art: The Dragon Curve in Ceramic Tile -- 46. Christmas Cards -- 47. Geek Art -- 48. Memories of Martin Gardner -- 49. An Earthshaking Announcement.
Series:
CSLI lecture notes ; no. 192
ISBN:
157586584X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781575865843 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1575865858 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781575865850 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)587198923
LCCN:
2010032404
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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