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Barrycades and Septoku: Papers in Honor of Martin Gardner and Tom Rodgers
About this Title
Thane Plambeck, Counterwave, Inc., Palo Alto, CA and Tomas Rokicki, Editors
Publication: Spectrum
Publication Year:
2020; Volume 100
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-4870-7 (print); 978-1-4704-5518-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/100
Table of Contents
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Front/Back Matter
Sequences, tiling, and packing
- Eight hateful sequences
- Building barrycades and constructing corrals
- Limited placements of polyominoes on rectangles
- Polyominoes on a multicolored infinite grid
Fun and games
- A chess tribute to John Horton Conway
- Some new combinatorial games
- Factor subtractor
- The mathematics of Septoku
History
Puzzles
- Triangles of absolute differences
- Generalization of a puzzle involving set partitions
- A generalization of Retrolife
- Coins of three different weights
- Rubber bandzzles: Three mathematical puzzle-art challenges
Art, sculpture, and design
Magic and miscellany
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