Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century

doi:10.5948/UPO9781614448013

Martin Gardner enormously expanded the field of recreational mathematics with the Mathematical Games columns he wrote for Scientific American for over 25 years and the more than 70 books he published. He also had a long relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, publishing articles in MAA journals right up to his death in 2010. This book collects the articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999 to 2012 that spring from and comment on his work.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Preface
pp v-viii

Contents
pp ix-xiv

I - Geometry
pp 1-2

1 - The Asymmetric Propeller
pp 3-6

2 - The Asymmetric Propeller Revisited
pp 7-10

3 - Bracing Regular Polygons As We Race into the Future
pp 11-18

4 - A Platonic Sextet for Strings
pp 19-24

5 - Prince Rupert's Rectangles
pp 25-34

II - Number Theory and Graph Theory
pp 35-36

6 - Transcendentals and Early Birds
pp 37-38

7 - Squaring, Cubing, and Cube Rooting
pp 39-44

8 - Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10
pp 45-52

9 - Mad Tea Party Cyclic Partitions
pp 53-64

10 - The Continuing Saga of Snarks
pp 65-72

11 - The Map-Coloring Game
pp 73-84

III - Flexagons and Catalan Numbers
pp 85-86

12 - It's Okay to Be Square If You're a Flexagon
pp 87-102

13 - The V-flex, Triangle Orientation, and Catalan Numbers in Hexaflexagons
pp 103-108

14 - From Hexaflexagons to Edge Flexagons to Point Flexagons
pp 109-112

15 - Flexagons Lead to a Catalan Number Identity
pp 113-118

16 - Convergence of a Catalan Series
pp 119-124

IV - Making Things Fit
pp 125-126

17 - L-Tromino Tiling of Mutilated Chessboards
pp 127-134

18 - Polyomino Dissections
pp 135-142

19 - Squaring the Plane
pp 143-152

20 - Magic Knight's Tours
pp 153-158

21 - Some New Results on Magic Hexagrams
pp 159-166

22 - Finding All Solutions to the Magic Hexagram
pp 167-172

23 - Triangular Numbers, Gaussian Integers, and KenKen
pp 173-178

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