The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner{purestevil}release

The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner





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Author(s) : Elwyn R. Berlekamp, Tom Rodgers

Publisher : AK Peters, Ltd.

Date : 1999

Pages : 266

Format : PDF

ISBN : 156881075X





In 1993, the first gathering for Gardner (G4G1) was held in Atlanta, where he was honored for all of his work in making mathematics interesting and entertaining. As befits a gathering of this type, many people wrote papers in the areas of magic, puzzles and mathematics to be presented at the conference. Those papers, plus a few that didn't make it into the official list, have been gathered together to make this book. The papers are split into three categories: Personal Magic, Puzzlers and Mathemagics. While none were authored by the master, they all clearly bear his stylistic signature. The presentation is clear, entertaining and all reach the point quickly and effectively. I was so intrigued by them that it was the only thing that I read once I obtained a copy, to the detriment of the quality of a lecture on the programming language Java. This is the highest tribute that any professional writer can achieve, when others are motivated to write material similar to yours to be collected and presented at a conference in your honor. Gardner deserves that and more and every paper in this collection is comparable to his work in quality.