The mathemagician and the pied puzzler

By the kind courtesy of AK Peters, Ltd, the entire text of The mathemagician and pied puzzler: a collection in tribute to Martin Gardner,

a 1999 book edited by Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers, is now available on this site.

You can obtain the book as one large PDF file [21.4 Mb, 276 pages], or alternatively browse particular PDF articles, below:

The Mathematician and Pied Puzzler

Front matter (4 pages)

Table of contents (3 pages)

Foreword by Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers (2 pages)

Part I: Personal Magic

Martin Gardner: A "Documentary", by Dana Richards (10 pages)

Ambrose, Gardner, and Doyle, by Raymond Smullyan (5 pages)

A Truth Learned Early, by Carl Pomerance (1 page)

Martin Gardner = Mint! Grand! Rare! by Jeremiah Farrell (2 pages)

Three Limericks: On Space, Time, and Speed, by Tim Rowett (2 pages)

Part II: Puzzlers

A Maze with Rules, by Robert Abbott (2 pages)

Biblical Ladders, by Donald E. Knuth (6 pages)

Card Game Trivia, by Stewart Lamle (1 page)

Creative Puzzle Thinking, by Nob Yoshigahara (4 pages)

Number Play, Calculators and Card Tricks: Mathemagical Black Holes, by Michael W. Ecker (11 pages)

Puzzles from Around the World, by Richard I. Hess (32 pages)

O'Beirne's Hexiamond, by Richard K. Guy (12 pages)

Japanese Tangram (The Sei Shonagon Pieces), by Shigeo Takagi (2 pages)

How a Tangram Cat Happily Turns into the Pink Panther, by Bernhard Wiezorke (4 pages)

Polly's Flagstones, by Stewart Coffin (3 pages)

Those Peripatetic Pentominoes, by Kate Jones (10 pages)

Self-Designing Tetraflexagons, by Robert E. Neale (10 pages)

The Odyssey of the Figure Eight Puzzle, by Stewart Coffin (3 pages)

Metagrobolizers of Wire, by Rick Irby (4 pages)

Beautiful but Wrong: The Floating Hourglass Puzzle, by Scot Morris (9 pages)

Cube Puzzles, by Jeremiah Farrell (5 pages)

The Nine Color Puzzle, by Sivy Fahri (11 pages)

Twice: A Sliding Block Puzzle, by Edward Hordern (2 pages)

Planar Burrs, by M. Oskar van Deventer (3 pages)

Block-Packing Jambalaya, by Bill Cutler (6 pages)

Classification of Mechanical Puzzles and Physical Objects Related to Puzzles, by James Dalgety and Edward Hordern (12 pages)

Part III: Mathemagics

A Curious Paradox, by Raymond Smullyan (1 page)

A Powerful Procedure for Proving Practical Propositions, by Solomon W. Golomb (2 pages)

Misfiring Tasks, by Ken Knowlton (3 pages)

Drawing de Bruijn Graphs, by Herbert Taylor (2 pages)

Computer Analysis of Sprouts, by David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator (3 pages)

Strange New Life Forms: Update, by Bill Gosper (10 pages)

Hollow Mazes, by M. Oskar van Deventer (6 pages)

Some Diophantine Recreations, by David Singmaster (17 pages)

Who Wins Misère Hex?, by Jeffrey Lagarias and Daniel Sleator (4 pages)

An Update on Odd Neighbors and Odd Neighborhoods, by Leslie E. Shader (4 pages)

Point Mirror Reflection, by M. Oskar van Deventer (7 pages)

How Random Are 3x + 1 Function Iterates?, by Jeffrey C. Lagarias (14 pages)