The tradition of a publication based on the Gathering for Gardner continues with this new carefully selected and edited collection in which Martin Gardner and friends inspire and entertain. The contributors to this volume---virtually a list of Who's Who in the World of Puzzles---trace their inspiration to Martin Gardner's puzzle column in Scientific American and to his contributions to the world of recreational mathematics. Tribute to a Mathemagician contains an author index for the two previous books in the collection of books based on the Gatherings for Gardner. Sample puzzles and games include: - Tripos - Black Jack - Chinese ceramic puzzle vessels - Paper folding - Mongolian interlocking puzzles - Rolling block puzzles - Sliding puzzles - Cryptic crosswords - The Panex puzzle - Polyonimo puzzles - and more
Part I: Braintreasures
1. Chinese Ceramic Puzzle Vessels
2. Mongolian Interlocking Puzzles Part II: Brainticklers
3. Fold-and-Cut Magic
4. The Three-Legged Hourglass
5. The Incredible Swimmer Puzzle
6. The Butler University Game
7. Vive Recreational Mathematics
8. Godelian Puzzles Part III: Brainteasers
9. A Bouquet of Brainteasers
10. Sliding-Coin Puzzles
11. Underspecified Puzzles
12. A Cryptic Crossword Puzzle in Honor of Martin Gardner
13. Absolute Martin Part IV: Braintempters
14. A History of the Ten-Square
15. Configuration Games
16. BlackJack Stacks
17. Five Algorithmic Puzzles
18. Polyform Patterns
19. Another Pentomino Problem
20. Polyomino Number Theory (III)
21. A Golomb Gallimaufry Part V: Braintaunters
22. The Panex Puzzle
23. Upstart Puzzles
24. The Complexity of Sliding-Block Puzzles and Plank Puzzles
25. Hinged Dissections: Swingers, Twisters, Flappers
26. Part VI: Braintools
27. The Burnside Di-Lemma: Combinatorics and Puzzle Symmetry
28. Designing Puzzles with a Computer
29. Origami Approximate Geometric Constructions
30. Rolling Block Mazes
31. Constructing Domino Portraits
Cipra, Barry; Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L.; Rodgers, Tom
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