Gardner (Martin) papers

Game files Series 1

1/F Music

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 44, folder 2

1978, April [1 of 2] 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

"Two Styles in Visual Arts: The Finitely Scaled and the Self Similar", by Benoit Mandelbrot (typescript)

"Physical Systems with Variability on all Time Scales: Flicker Noises", by William Press (typescript)

Correspondents:

Sanders, David

Box 44, folder 3

1978, April [2 of 2] 1977-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Smith, Cyril

Mandelbrot, Benoit

Box 44, folder 4

Papers by Voss 1984

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

Voss articles and some others

24 Cubes & Austin's Dog

Box 24, folder 18

1971, December 1971-1998

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article

Correspondents:

Salmon, Wesley

Klamkin, Murray

Golomb, Solomon

Bankoff, Leon

Naranan, S.

3-D Objects

Physical Description: 20 folder(s)

Box 55, folder 1

3-D Objects: From Box 1 Folder 3: Flexigons undated

Scope and Contents note

6 hexaflexigon models (one with intertwined tie.)

1 plastic bag with instructions to "Fortune Teller"

1 "Meeba Teaser" (folding puzzle)

Box 55, folder 2

3-D Objects: From Box 2 Folder 2: Tower of Hanoi undated

Scope and Contents note

Model "The Great pyramid", 9 nesting colorful pyramids.

Box 55, folder 3

3-D Objects: From Box 7 Folder 10: Bridg-it & Twist undated

Scope and Contents note

Playing layouts and instructions for The Game of Gale (as season's greetings from the Hatchers.)

Box 55, folder 4

3-D Objects: From Box 8 Folder 14: Spirals undated

Scope and Contents note

Models of spirals

Box 55, folder 5

3-D Objects: From Box 8 Folder 14: Spirals undated

Scope and Contents note

Spiral drawing device - cardboard (goes with letter from Roger Hayward.)

Box 55, folder 6

3-D Objects: From Box 10Folder 10: Topology undated

Scope and Contents note

Two triangular handkerchiefs, from letter of Michael A. Pitzel. Tri-Mobius Brand.

Box 55, folder 7

3-D Objects: From Box 11 Folder 6: Bouncing Ball in Tetrahedron undated

Scope and Contents note

Original of drawing by Roger Heyword of Stereo pair of helical chain of tetrahedra.

Box 55, folder 8

3-D Objects: From Box 12 Folder 2: Sliding Blocks undated

Scope and Contents note

"Twice" Sliding Block Puzzle. Description: Square, 3x3, numbered sliding sub-squares: 1, 2a, 2b, 3-7, A.

Base has pegs sticking up in 4 corner squares;

pieces have grooves in back: 2a, 4: vertical; 2b, A,: horizontal; 1, 5: both (crossing); 3, 6: none

(The grooves in back restrict sliding over the corner squares.)

Box 55, folder 9

3-D Objects: From Box 12 Folder 10: Sliding Block Puzzles undated

Scope and Contents note

Nutzy Puzzle - plastic sliding block puzzle, 7 circle counters in figure-8 slides (slides are like a square with a horizontal line across the middle.)

Box 55, folder 10

3-D Objects: From Box 13 Folder 18: Hexiamonds undated

Scope and Contents note

1 set hixiamonds, cardboard, sealed, possibly from Niels Gottleb.

Box 55, folder 11

3-D Objects: From Box 16 Folder 4: M. C. Escher undated

Scope and Contents note

13 Escher bookmarks.

Box 55, folder 12

3-D Objects: From Box 17 Folder 20: Pascal Triangle undated

Scope and Contents note

Hexstat: small beads sliding in a triangular array of hexagons, to show various statistical and other relationships, from Science Materials Center. With teachers manual.

Box 55, folder 13

3-D Objects: From Box 20 Folder 13: The 24 Color Triangles undated

Scope and Contents note

Try-Angle Puzzle, by Ora & Theo Coster. Set of 16 edge-colored triangles, 5 colors. (Jewish New Years text in colors, for Tishri 5730/Sept. 1969), plus sheet of shapes to make.

Box 56, folder 1

3-D Objects: From Box 20 Folder 20: Crossed Moebius Bands undated

Scope and Contents note

4 velcro and zipper strips to experiment with crossed moebius band, from Jean Pedersen.

Box 56, folder 2

3-D Objects: From Box 24 Folder 5: Pedersen's Strip Solids, Gurule's Work undated

Scope and Contents note

GeoCube Tree Ornaments (6 fun-to-assemble ornaments), from "The Puzzle Works" (scored cardboard models.)

Box 56, folder 3

3-D Objects: From Box 26 Folder 7: Napiers Bones undated

Scope and Contents note

Paper set of "bones" - Abaco Neperiano Perfeccionada (see letter from Luis Benito Quintana.)

Box 56, folder 4

3-D Objects: From Box 30 Folder 16: Non-Transitive Paradoxes undated

Scope and Contents note

"Jen-Ken'Pon Chips", by Max Maven (a magic trick/game.)

Box 56, folder 5

3-D Objects: From Box 39 Folder 4: Penrose Tiles undated

Scope and Contents note

2 sets of non-periodic tiles (cardboard.)

Box 56, folder 6

3-D Objects: From Box 46 Folder 7: Minimal Sculpture, Folded Card Paradox 1985

Scope and Contents note

The Ultracard Puzzle - fancy hypercard, form Gordon Jeppesen, 1985 (puzzle and magic trick.)

Box 56, folder 7

3-D Objects: From Box 52 Folder 3: Short Problems undated

Scope and Contents note

15 1-yen coins (for measurement problem)

Abacus

Box 22, folder 10

1970, January 1963-1973

Accidental Patterns in Pi (& Prose Verse)

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 49, folder 1

1979, September undated

Scope and Contents note

Just article, plus 1 page notes on "e" curiosity.

Box 49, folder 2

Accidental Verse 1965-1979

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Starbuck, George

Box 49, folder 3

Intentionally Concealed Poetry in Prose undated

Scope and Contents note

A few newspaper articles.

Box 49, folder 4

Accidental Meanings 1967-1994

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Lindgren, Harry

Advertising Premiums

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 24, folder 15

1971, November undated

Scope and Contents note

Article & Pony puzzle & Several copies of summation

Box 24, folder 16

The T-Puzzle 1971

Scope and Contents note

Several advertising premiums (T, L, Square) - but some are missing.

Box 24, folder 17

The Square Puzzle undated

Alephs II & Supertasks

Box 23, folder 15

1971, March 1971-1987

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Discussion of details of MG article by Gillman (1982)

Correspondents:

Gillman, Leonard

Golomb, Solomon

Anamorphic Art

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 31, folder 13

1975, January 1974-1993

Scope and Contents note

"On conformal Transformation and it's use in Painting", by Enrique Castro-Cid (typescript)

Anamorphic pictures of M.G., by Antonio Peticov

Correspondents:

Castro-Cid, Enrique

Cerf, Genevieve

Box 31, folder 14

Slant Art 1975

Scope and Contents note

Various examples and reproductions

Box 31, folder 15

Amsterdam Exhibit 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Elffers, Joost

Box 31, folder 16

Kelly Houle 1975-2000

Scope and Contents note

Article, by Houle, on Anamorphic Art

(Herman letters & photocopies look as if they are from another folder!)

Correspondents:

Houle, Kelly

Herman, Richard

Box 31, folder 17

Cylinders & Cones [1 of 2] 1972-1975

Scope and Contents note

Many (rather poor) photocopies of anamorphic art, and notes on phoning dealers & museums.

Box 31, folder 18

Cylinders & Cones [2 of 2] 1975-1979

Scope and Contents note

More photocopies, etc, of anamorphic art.

Description of method for cylindrical anamorphic projection, by Charles Kluepfel

(Also some rep-tiles, from Jack Giles)

Slides: 6 anamorphic drawings, J. Leupold (1674-1727)

4 of fancy cylinders and cones.

Mention of Scott Kim in letter to Lillian Silver (1975)

Correspondents:

Kluepfel, Charles

Giles, Jack

Silver, Lilian

Box 31, folder 19

Bibliog, References 1976

Scope and Contents note

Also some articles

Amateur Scientist article, by Jearl Walker, SA, July, 1981 (cut-out pages)

"On Brunelleschi's Perspective "Experiments" or Demonstrations", by Nicholas Pastore (preprint), It. Journal of Psychology, 1975

"Adolf Liebig's Anamorphic Art" (news release)

"des rebus optiques Les Anamorphoses" (photocopy) L'Estampille, Apr. 1971

Anamorphosis: In Morphology and the Visual Arts", by Roy Behrens (photocopy) from Worm Runner's Digest, Dec. 1972

"Anamorphoscopes: a Visual Aid for Circle INversion", by Philip Kuchel (pages) - Mathematical Gazette

April Fool Column

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 32, folder 11

1975, April 1975

Scope and Contents note

Note on the amount of correspondance

Box 32, folder 12

Ripoff Rotor 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Lots of humerous & serious correspondance

Box 32, folder 13

Da Vinci & Crapper 1975-1978

Scope and Contents note

Much correspondance on the existence of Thomas Crapper, newspaper articles, etc.

Correspondents:

Heath, Peter

Reng, Peter

Oliver, Barney

McCabe, Charles

Burnam, Tom

Box 32, folder 14

Flushed With Pride 1973

Scope and Contents note

Copy of the book, by Wallace Reyburn, subtitle: "The Story of Thomas Crapper", McDonald, 1969 (pb)

Box 32, folder 15

Lorentz-Contraction Paradox 1975

Scope and Contents note

Articles explaining "paradox"

Box 32, folder 16

e to pi times square root of 163 power 1975-1991

Scope and Contents note

Some proofs it is transendental, & other examples of near integers

Correspondents:

Devlin, Keith

Good, Jack

Shallit, Jeffrey

Golomb, Solomon

Wrench, John

Box 32, folder 17

The Map 1974-1977

Scope and Contents note

Original letter and map (William McGregor)

Suggestions on how to color maps (Bernhart)

Correspondents:

McGregor, William

Bernhart, Frank

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Bacon's Biliteral Cipher

Box 25, folder 18

1972, November 1972-1973

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

Ball Bouncing Problems

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 11, folder 4

1963, September 1963

Scope and Contents note

Cube, Tetra, etc.

"Periodic Omnihedral Billiards in Regular Polyhedra and Polytopes", by Mathew Hudelson (typescript)

Correspondents:

Draper, Theodore

Knuth, Donald

Hudelson, Matthew

Box 11, folder 5

Bouncing Ball in Tetrahedron 1960-1963

Scope and Contents note

much Roger Hayward correspondance

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Hayward, Roger

Box 11, folder 6

Bouncing Ball in Cube and Hypercube 1960-1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Oliver, Barney

Hayward, Roger

Gordon, Jack

De Jong

Box 11, folder 7

Liquid Pouring (B. Ball as Computer) 1963-1964

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Mattson, H.F.

Bells

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 44, folder 5

1978, May 1978-1999

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

Mathematica Monongaliae #12 (May, 1971), with bibliographies of Bell & Cataan numbers

Correspondents:

De Camp, L. Sprague

Box 44, folder 6

Murasaki Diagrams 1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Gould, Henry

Hitotumatu, Sin

Unger, J. Marshall

Box 44, folder 7

Bell Shuffles 1978-1982

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Bolker, Ethan

Box 44, folder 8

Readers on Bells 1978-1991

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Pratt, Vaugham

Shallit, Jeffrey

Good, I.J.

Sutcliffe, Alan

James, Leigh

Bethe, Henry

Lenard, Andrew

Box 44, folder 9

References Bell Numbers [1 of 2] 1976-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Shallit, Jeffrey

Hoggatt, Vernon

Pleasants, Peter

Box 44, folder 10

References Bell Numbers [2 of 2] 1979

Scope and Contents note

Computer printout of Jeff Shallit's table of 1st 400 Bell numbers

Golomb, Solomon (Cryptograms & Bell Numbers)

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Box 44, folder 11

Gould 1978

Scope and Contents note

Mostly Henry Gould "Research Bibliography of Two Special Number Sequences", Revised Ed, 1976

Box 44, folder 12

Growney & Rogers 1976-1977

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Singmaster, David

Growney, Jo Anne

Rogers, Douglass

Bennett on Chaitin's Omega

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 49, folder 15

1979, November 1979

Scope and Contents note

"Knuth's Trivialization of Chaitin's Number as Problem Solver" (typescript)

Correspondents:

Bennett, Charles

Knuth, Donald

Asimov, Dan

Box 49, folder 16

Turing Machine Def. of "Randomness" (Chaitin) 1968-1977

Scope and Contents note

Several Chaitin articles.

Correspondents:

Huber, Peter

Chaitin, Greg

Box 49, folder 17

Chaitin's Ext. of Godel 1987

Scope and Contents note

Chaitin's articles, with reviews, commentary, & editorials about them.

Binary

Box 6, folder 20

1960, December 1959-1968

Scope and Contents note

Binary number system

Block Packing

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 35, folder 9

1976, February [1 of 2] 1968-1976

Scope and Contents note

Quadron puzzle description, by J. Hanny

Correspondents:

Foregger, Thomas

Conway, John

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 35, folder 10

1976, February [2 of 2] 1973-1996

Scope and Contents note

"Brick Tiling and Monotone Boolean Functions", by Jonathan King (typescript)

Correspondents:

Klarner, David

Brooke, Maxey

Barnes, Frank

Cutler, William

Beeler, Michael

Knuth, Donald

Box 35, folder 11

Ammann's and Barnes solution to all Odd Cubes 1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Ammann, Robert

Lagarias, Jeff

Box 35, folder 12

Proofs of 7-cube Impossibility 1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Lagarias, Jeff

Klarner, David

Patrice, Maupou

Barnes, Frank

Board Games

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 6, folder 2

1960, April 1960

Scope and Contents note

Shogi

Maharajah winning strategies

Chess variants, incl. Japan, China, Korea, Mars

Correspondents:

Rudge, William

Smith, Wallace

Blue, Richard

Kien, Dennis

Knight, William

Golomb, Solomon

Box 6, folder 3

Reversi 1960-1994

Scope and Contents note

(Also called Othello)

Newspaper article in envelope

References, analyses, computer programs

Knuth letter to Woodger re Bell on Reversi

Michaelsen letter contains history

Correspondents:

Bell, Alex

Knuth, Donald

Michaelsen, Peter

Carlson, Robert

Morgan, Chris

Brodsky, Daniel

Peregrine, D.

Petersen, Jon

Ondrejka, Rudolf

Hewlett, Clarence

Box 11, folder 8

1963, October 1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Box 11, folder 9

Games of Black; Pathfinder 1957-1969

Scope and Contents note

Original game and solution in Berlekamp letter

Game of Black on a hexagonal board

Description of "Reversal" game

Correspondents:

Smith, Donovan

Berlekamp, Elwyn

Eisner, Milton

Hosken, Wesley

Box 11, folder 10

Tablut 1960, 1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Berthelsen, Ingmar

Abbott, Robert

Smith, Anthony

Box 11, folder 11

The Military Game 1960-1970

Scope and Contents note

Richard Site's solution (via D. Knuth)

... and others

Correspondents:

Berlekamp, Elwyn

Van der Poel, Willem

Gosling, John

Simmons, Webb

Silver, Roland

Knuth, Donald

Box 11, folder 12

Focus 19631967

Scope and Contents note

Booklet of Focus instructions, copyright Sid Sackson

Proof first player cannot win (Yearout)

Correspondents:

Yearout, Paul

Boolean Algebra

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 21, folder 2

1969, February 1971

Scope and Contents note

several articles and errata

Box 21, folder 3

Boolean Algebra as a Lattice 1971

Box 21, folder 4

Factors of 30, of 210, etc undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Box 21, folder 5

Circuits 1960-1970

Scope and Contents note

Article on Telephone Switching, by Feder & Spencer

"Logical Loops", by Edward Horvath (Article) (note by Don Knuth)

Correspondents:

Givoli, Nachman

Braids

Box 5, folder 16

1959, December 1959-1998

Scope and Contents note

Group Theory

Correspondents:

Fox, Ralph

Papazian, Haig

Turner, Roseline

Brain Teasers - 1

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 1, folder 8

1957, February 1957

Scope and Contents note

"An assortment of maddening puzzles. Warning: The solutions will not be given until March"

Box 1, folder 9

Logician and Forked Road 1957-1990

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Singmaster, David

Stover, Mel

Conway, John

Gummere, John

Sciame, Dennis

Wade, Carleton

Janzen, H.

Laster, Clayton

Roubicek, Juan

Fischer, W.

Polakilwicz, A.

Konikow, Robert

Givson, Robert

Weigle, Oscar

Haggstrom, Warren

Burman, S.

Rector, Charles

Vandegrift, Neil

Henrickson, Patric

Kriegsman, Edwin

Dominguez, Loreto

Oxaal, Gunnar

Lewis, C.I.

Stiles, Sam

Morgan, John

Goldberg, Norton

Box 1, folder 10

Cutting the Cube 1957-1958

Scope and Contents note

"On the Optimum Method of Cutting a Rectangular Box into Unit Cubes", by Eugene J. Putzer and R.W. Lowen

Box 1, folder 11

Commuter and Wife 1957-1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

many

Brain Teasers - 2

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 2, folder 10

1957, November 1957-1958

Scope and Contents note

Nine titillating puzzles (November, 1957)

Also: Matematycne lamiglowki, by Martin Gardner (in Polish)

Box 2, folder 11

The 6 cigarettes 1957-1992

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Shifman, Jerrald

Rybicki, Geroge & John Reynolds

Shoemaker, David

Burling, Robbins

McCoy, Donald

Gray, John

Ceave, Hweitt

Wierum, Carl

Alt, Franz

Nelson, Harry

Klee, Victor

... and many more

Box 2, folder 12

Sam Loyd's Ferry Boats 1957

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kayser, R.

Parkinson, Percy

Stevenson, W.S.

Box 2, folder 13

Electrician and Wire Puzzle 1957

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Gannett, Danforth

Fletcher, John

Hernandez, Rogelio

Burton, J.

Sammel, Goodwin

Katz, Louis

Stein, Phil

Deich, Herbert

Lebau, Louis

Williamson, Donald

Kassel, Louis

Brady, Bryce

Knowlton, Kenneth

... and many more

Box 2, folder 14

The 12 Matches 1957-1965

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hejl, William

Stover, Mel

Putzer, Eugene

Metz, Hugh

Hoefer, H. Carl

Haynes, L.B.

... and many more

Box 2, folder 15

6 Inch Hole in Sphere 1957-1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Edwards, Bernard

Roubicek, Juan

Bethany, David

Job, G. Curtiss

Rappaport, Sigmund

Richards, Irving

Brooke, William

Pratt, John

John, Brother H.

Sholander, Marlow

Buchanan, James

Caffrey, John

Box 2, folder 16

Ford's Problem of the Children and House Number 1957

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Dubner, Harvey

Card, William

Hartwell, Robert

Brain Teasers - 3

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 4, folder 2

1958, August 1958-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Carter, Geraldine

Card, L.E.

Box 4, folder 3

Cork Plug 1958-1966

Scope and Contents note

alternate solutions and problems

Correspondents:

Cleveland, Forrest

Hoard, Charles

Klees, G.W.

Leary, James

Carey, Graham

Robertson, J.S.

Box 4, folder 4

The 3 planes 1958-1991

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Schlosser, Jon

Drews, P.

Phillips, J. and Kesterson, r.

Fineberg, Mark

Lerner, Lawrence

Corbato, F.

Moruzzi, Hugo

Box 4, folder 5

Triangle Duel (3-way duel) 1958-1997

Scope and Contents note

also: Truel, Triel

Correspondents:

Schoenfeld, Gerald (also 3 planes)

Ford, John

Funkenbusch, W.

Kean, Lee

Schonblom, James

Kloper, Kenneth

Brain Teasers - 4

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 4, folder 20

1959, May 1958-1959

Scope and Contents note

Absent Minded Teller

Long Division problem

Wine and water

Dividing cake

Correspondents:

Richards, Irving

Bronson, Nathaniel

Houde, John

Guskurst, Robin

Maas, Magela

Orr, Stanley

McFarland, David

Hayashi, Teru

Gray, Dwight

Brigham, Robert

Edgar, David

Argyle, P.

Noble, William

Fletcher, John

Kneser, H.

Galvin, Fred

Box 4, folder 21

Desert and Truck 1957-1994

Scope and Contents note

"Problem in Logistics: The Jeep Problem", by Olaf Helmer, Project RAND, RA-15015, 1946

much analysis

Correspondents:

Eisner, Elmer

Phipps, Cecil

Swanson, John

Burchel, Robert

Gale, David

Brain Teasers - 5

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 5, folder 18

1960, February 1960, 2000

Scope and Contents note

Barr's Belt

Plane in wind

Hair color

(some German references)

Correspondents:

Macaluso, Pat

Killian

Gaus, Andrew

Upson, R.

Lubinski, Robert

Box 5, folder 19

Wife Selection problem [1 of 2] 1958-1960

Scope and Contents note

Numbers on slips of paper - choose highest

"Googol" game

various analyses (see correspondents)

Correspondents:

Ferguson

Flood

Robison

DeBolt

Von Nardroff

Jackson, Robert

Gaskel, R.

Adams, Edward N.

Fox

Moser, Leo

Stover, Mel

Box 5, folder 20

Wife Selection problem [2 of 2] 1960-1999

Scope and Contents note

"The Old Maid Problem or When to Accept an Offer", by Robert J. Heppe

Correspondents:

Pinkham, Roger

Heppe, Robert

Donaldson, Norman

Box 5, folder 21

Courier problem [1 of 2] 1960

Scope and Contents note

Sam Loyd's version of the Courier problem

Running Dog problem

Dog around Cadets problem

(MG notes)

Quartic solutions

Graphical solutions

Correspondents:

Jackson, Robert

Gibson

Edgeworth

Stout

Shepherd

Hinrichs, Ralph

Neare/Rowe

Raynor

Wilsey, Kenneth

Brown, D.

Perkins, E.

Box 5, folder 22

Courier problem [2 of 2] 1960-1963

Scope and Contents note

more analysis, and variations

Correspondents:

Green, D.

Kress, Herbert

Meyer, Weston

Ehrgott, H.

Kerst, Edger

Richards, Irving

Hufstedler, Seth

Meehan, Thomas

Salsburg, David

Keranen, David

Brown, W.Byers

Plice, M.

Stoeckly, Robert

Herrington, A.

Younger, F.

Hamann, Jens & Patrick Weidhaas

Brain Teasers - 6

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 6, folder 10

1960, October 1960

Scope and Contents note

Just the article

Box 6, folder 11

Blue Eyes 1960

Scope and Contents note

problem #6

Correspondents:

Hamilton, Laurens

Brown, Thomas

Kessler, Gilbert

Box 6, folder 12

Game of Hip 1960, 1995

Scope and Contents note

Problem #1

Correspondents:

Merritt, Michael

Templeton, David

Dickensen, Allan

Blechner, Michael & Douglas Garcia

Andree, Richard

Golomb, Solomon

Jordan, William

Vanderpool, Donald

Silverman, David

Box 6, folder 13

Sliced Cube and Torus 1959-1960

Scope and Contents note

Problem #4

Correspondents:

Emerson, E.

Winker, Jean

Bordelon, Derrill

Box 6, folder 14

Switching Puzzle 1960, 1971

Scope and Contents note

Problem #2

Solution in 18 with bottom sliding missing

Flying switch solution

Box 6, folder 15

Track Meet 1960

Scope and Contents note

Short cut solution

Box 6, folder 16

Monad 1960-1961

Scope and Contents note

Problem #5

Other ways to bisect

"Perceptual Analysis of a Symbol of Interaction", by Rudolf Arnheim, Confinia Psychiatrica 3/4 (1960)

Box 6, folder 17

Termite 1960

Scope and Contents note

Problem #9

Brain Teasers - 7

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 7, folder 5

1961, June 1961-1962

Scope and Contents note

Letters on Kant's clock problem

Hexahedron problem

Rook problem

Square root problem

Mountain problem

Correspondents:

Hyman, Ray

Box 7, folder 6

Arithmagic Square 1963

Scope and Contents note

Some analysis, and references.

Box 7, folder 7

Toaster Problem 1961-1962

Scope and Contents note

Agricultural Materials Handling Manual, Part 1: Systems Engineering, Seciton 1.1: Introduction to Systems Engineering, Printed in Canada, 1962: contains Gantt Chart solution (p. 19)

Correspondents:

Davis, R.J.

Marcus, Mitchell

Dowd, John

Brouse, Richard

Johnson, Clark

Roazen, Harvey

Schnura, Ronald

Box 7, folder 8

20 Question Problem 1961

Scope and Contents note

"Coding for the Discrete Noiseless Channel", by Solomon Golumb, 1961 (mimegraph)

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Youngblood, W.

Zimmerman, Seth

Johansen, Donald

Price, Gary

Brain Teasers - 8

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 8, folder 3

1962, February 1962

Scope and Contents note

Article and answers

Box 8, folder 4

Placing 8 Digits 1962-1973

Scope and Contents note

"The No Touch Puzzle and Graphical Complementation", by Grank Harary & Allen J. Schwenk

Correspondents:

Harary, Frank

Gruenberger, Fred

Koplowitz, Herp

Danzer, John

Box 8, folder 5

Lady or Tiger 1961-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Winning, W.C.

Binsack, Joseph

Zeisel, Hans

Box 8, folder 6

6-match Problem 1962, 1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Eckhardt, Henry

Hoover, W.

Read, Ronald

Hood, Rodney

Kyrmse, Ronald

Box 8, folder 7

Tennis Match 1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hogan, W.

Ohlin, Goran

Pett, Martin

Carnahan, Paul

Addis, Peter

Gray, Thomas

Brain Teasers - 9

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 9, folder 6

1962, October 1962-1963

Box 9, folder 7

Archimedes' Crossed Cylinders 1962-1963

Scope and Contents note

3 cylinder case, and other cases

Correspondents:

Sutton, Richard

Box 9, folder 8

7 File Cards 1962-1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Block, James

Vanderpool, Donald

Box 9, folder 9

Floyd's Knob 1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Nelson, DeWitte

Abbott, Robert

Calculating Prodigies

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 18, folder 20

1967, April 1967

Scope and Contents note

Various articles.

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Goodwin, Norris

Box 18, folder 21

William Klein 1967-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Klein, William

Box 18, folder 22

Aitken 1967

Scope and Contents note

Various articles

Correspondents:

Aitken, Winifred

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 18, folder 23

Arthur Benjamin 1981

Scope and Contents note

articles

Box 18, folder 24

Marvelous Griffith 1967

Scope and Contents note

Arthur F. Griffith: MG notes, article, hand-copy of article

Box 18, folder 25

Willie Dysart 1967

Scope and Contents note

Articles, letters, photos

Correspondents:

Roth, David

Box 18, folder 26

Miss. Shakuntala Devi 1977-1993

Scope and Contents note

Newspapeer articles, typed bio (by Moe Moss)

Calculus of Finite Difference

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 7, folder 13

1961, August 1961

Scope and Contents note

References, articles

Correspondents:

Gummere, John

Box 7, folder 14

The Necklace Problem [1 of 2] 1960-1961

Scope and Contents note

(from Dudeney)

Golomb's formula

"Equivalence of Cyclic Sequences Under Transformations of the Affine Group", by Robert C. Titsworth

"On Cyclically and Reversibly-Distinct Binary Patterns, and their Application to Memory Coding Systems", by B. Elspas, Stanford Research Institute File Memo 3101, 1960 (mimeo)

Correspondents:

Zeiske, Arnold

Vanderpool, Donald

Szekeres, George

Nadier, Morton

Titsworth, Robert

Pscheidt

Golomb, Solomon

Hobbs, Earl

Elspas, Bernard

Box 7, folder 15

The Necklace Problem [2 of 2] 1961

Scope and Contents note

"Enumeration of the Distinct Cyclic q-ary Code Groups of Length n", by Earl Hobbs, Memo No. 412-AE-1806, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, 1961 (mimeo)

Correspondents:

Bergman, George

Hobbs, W.W.

Read, Ronald

Isaacs, I. Martin

Harary, Frank

Lorens, Charles

Brown, W.S.

Harter, J.W.

Perkins, Donald

Singmaster, David

Cantor's Alephs

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 16, folder 1

1966, March 1966-1980

Scope and Contents note

Several "flaws" in proof, commented on by MG

Box 16, folder 2

Zippin's Problem of Replicating Figures 1966-1977

Scope and Contents note

Discussion of reproducing figures infinite times (Robert Mack, Zippin, MG)

Correspondents:

Mack, Robert

Zippin

Box 16, folder 3

Alephs in Cosmology & Physics 1964-1979

Scope and Contents note

2 articles

Science fiction story "Cantor's War", by Christopher Anvil, "IF", June 1974

Card Tricks

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 2, folder 8

1957, September 1957-1958

Scope and Contents note

Concerning various card tricks with a mathematical message (September, 1957)

Correspondents:

Baily, Joshua

Kroening, Irrwin

Box 25, folder 11

1972, July 1972-1975

Scope and Contents note

"Color Scheme", by Oscar Weigle (reprint)

"Double Cross" by George Sands (lecture notes)

"Oil and Water" by Ed Marlo (photocopy)

"Mantra" (4 page newsletter, 1975), Ed: Sam Dalal

"Upsy Downsy" in letter from "Ron" (no last name)

Correspondents:

Sargeant, Peter

Cohen, Edward

Eto, Jukji

Marlo, Edward

Cards

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 20, folder 4

1968, June 1977-1999

Scope and Contents note

Shuffling.

Baker's Game (original of Free Cell)

Copy of Russian Translation fo article

Correspondents:

Ondrejka, Rudolf

Barry ??

Box 20, folder 5

Baker's Card Solitaire Game 1967-1983

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Baker, C.L.

Box 20, folder 6

Unsolvable Order-1 Games (& Orders 1, 3, 4) 1967-1968

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Shepherd, Wilfred H.

Hutton, Trevor

Kew, Thomas

Charosh, Mannis

Box 31, folder 3

1974, November 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Wilf, Herbert

Box 31, folder 4

Conway's Botdrops - etc. 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Conway games: Botdrops, Topswops, Botswops

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Wilf, Herbert

Silver, Roland

Box 31, folder 5

Silverman Problem 1974

Box 31, folder 6

Motel Problem (Permuting Adjacent Digits) 1974

Box 31, folder 7

Ransom's 5 Card Problem 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Rason, Peter

Stover, Mel

Ransom, Tom

Selfridge, Oliver

Weinrich, James

Carnival Games

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 4, folder 17

1959, April 1958-1997

Scope and Contents note

Lebesgue's Minimal area problem

Spot the spot

Coffee & cream problem (cooling the coffee)

Doughnuts and coffee

Cover the Spot (including small physical game in envelop)

Correspondents:

Smith, J.H.

Mallery, Larry

Confort, Edwin

Achener, Pierre

Gridgeman, Norman

DeBra, Daniel

Alberts, Alan

Speiser, A.

Wilder, John

Box 4, folder 18

3-Dice Game 1959

Scope and Contents note

"canned" response from MG, explaining the odds.

Correspondents:

Smith, Howard

Box 4, folder 19

Sliced Torus 1959-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Jones, Alan

Gould, Richard (analysis)

Massey, Dan (generalized to higher dimensions)

Palmquist, Paul (analysis)

Hall, David (analysis)

Martin, Paul

Catalan Numbers

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 36, folder 13

1976, June 1976

Scope and Contents note

No article

Polygons to triangle's, etc (folder subtitle)

"Correspondences Betweeen Some Sets Counted by the Catalan Numbers", by David Singmaster (typescript)

Correspondents:

Meyers, William

Eckler, Ross

Daly, William

Gould, Henry

Singmaster, David

Hoggatt, Vernon

Box 36, folder 14

Catalan's in General 1967-1976

Scope and Contents note

Many examples

"Numbers of Things", by Frank Bernhart (chapt. 4 of Thesis) (typescript)

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Gould, Henry

Nozaki, A.

Box 36, folder 15

Catalans & Trees 1976

Scope and Contents note

Various articles

Correspondents:

Meyers, William

Box 36, folder 16

Catalan Applications 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Articles and letters of applications

Box 37, folder 1

Catalan Structures & Correspondences 1977

Scope and Contents note

Thesis, by Michael J. Kuchinski, B.S., 1977, Graduate School, West Virginia University

Checkers

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 50, folder 1

1980, January 1979-1996

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Many MG notes.

Correspondents:

Beckerson, Alan

Schaeffer, Jonathan

Box 50, folder 2

Sucker Bets 1979

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Stover, Mel

Box 50, folder 3

Checkers - Histor & Variants 1979

Box 50, folder 4

John Rogers 1979

Box 50, folder 5

Computer Checker Programs 1979-1996

Scope and Contents note

MG Notes on phone talk with Bierman, about PAASLOW.

Also contains basic checkers rules.

Correspondents:

Tinsley, Marion

Granjean, Burke

Box 50, folder 6

Brown's Interchange undated

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Box 50, folder 7

No-Capture Shortest Games 1979-1980

Chess "Task" problems

Box 25, folder 7

1972, May 1961-2000

Scope and Contents note

"Solution of a Chessboard Configuration Problem", by G.E.Peterson (typescript)

Correspondents:

Liu, Andy

Cohen, Philip

Moss, Moe

Peterson, G.E.

Row, Thur (Mort Luebbert)

Nelson, Harry

Harris, John

Charosh, Mannis

Chess Problems

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 48, folder 5

1979, June 1979

Scope and Contents note

Joke mate - alternate solutions.

Box 48, folder 6

Unattached SuperQueens (Amazons) [1 of 2] 1979

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Chandra, Ashok

Knuth, Donald

Kahn, David

Box 48, folder 7

Unattached SuperQueens (Amazons) [2 of 2] 1965-1980

Scope and Contents note

Proofs for (rest of) non-attacking superqueens problem.

Correspondents:

Chandra, Ashok

Pappinghaus, P.

Reineke, J.

Zimmerman, Charles

Box 48, folder 8

Pandiagonal Latin Squares 1972-1977

Scope and Contents note

Notes (by Donald Knuth and Dorothy Webb) on number of solutions of "Quintessence" puzzle.

"Construction of Knut Vik Designs", by A. Atkin, L. Hay & R. Larson (typescript)

"Enumeration and Construction of Pandiagonal Latin Squares of Prime Order", by A. Atkin, L. Hay & R. Larson (typescript)

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Webb, Dorothy

Hay, Louise

Eves, Howard

Box 48, folder 9

Reflecting Queen Problem 1963-1980

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Klarner, David

Guy, Richard

Upton, Leslie

McIntosh, Richard

Box 48, folder 10

"Chromatic No." of Boards undated

Scope and Contents note

Notes and a couple of articles

Chessboard Puzzles

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 9, folder 10

1962, November 1962

Scope and Contents note

Just the article

Box 9, folder 11

Halving the Board 1962-2000

Scope and Contents note

Various calculations and corrections

Correspondents:

Marlow, Tom

Maas, Robert

McCarthy, John

Box 9, folder 12

Quartering the Board 1962-1968

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Patten, William

Moore, John

Grindley, W.H.

Fowler, Bruce

Chinese Puzzles & Berrocal

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 43, folder 4

1978, January 1978-1988

Scope and Contents note

Some photo's of puzzles

Edited typescript of article (photocopy)

Box 43, folder 5

Berrocal [ 1 of 3] undated

Scope and Contents note

Contact prints of many Berrocal sculptures (black & white)

Box 43, folder 6

Berrocal [ 2 of 3] undated

Scope and Contents note

"Catalogo General / obras recientes 1974" - Berrocal booklet

Box 43, folder 7

Berrocal [ 3 of 3] 1977-1979

Scope and Contents note

Catalogs, etc, from Centicore Arts, Internatational and Arnoold Katzen Gallery

Correspondents:

Berrocal, Miguel

Rudolph, James

Flanagan, Dennis

Box 43, folder 8

Burr Ennumeration [1 of 2] 1977-1996

Scope and Contents note

Bill Cutler's annual newsletter & catalogs

Correspondents:

Slocum, Jerry

Cutler, William

Cross, Arthur

Box 43, folder 9

Burr Ennumeration [2 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

2 booklets by Bill Cutler: "A Computer Analysis of All 6-piece Burrs" (1994), "Holey 6-Piece Burr!" (1986)

Church of the 4-D

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 8, folder 1

1962, January 1962-1999

Scope and Contents note

Fourth Dimension

(See folder on 4th dimension and highter spaces)

(Also folder on Hypercubes (1966))

Correspondents:

MG father

Casey, Graham

Stover, Mel

Box 8, folder 2

The Plaited Leather Strip 1962

Scope and Contents note

Including some leather examples

Coincidences

Box 25, folder 17

1972, October 1967-1972

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Rowe, R.Robinson

Bronowski, Judith

Color Triangles, Squares

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 6, folder 24

1961, March 1961-1977

Scope and Contents note

MacMahon Squares

W.H.Freeman ad using MacMahon Squares

Wade Philpott on MacMahon's Three-color Squares

Box 6, folder 25

Polymerase Game 1974-1979

Scope and Contents note

(2 color squares)

Game invented and discribed by Lasse Winquist

Box 6, folder 26

Nelson's 24-Tile Game 1972

Scope and Contents note

Description, variations, strategy

Correspondents:

Nelson, Harry

Box 7, folder 1

The 30 Color Cubes 1963-1969

Scope and Contents note

Westerind letter has much analysis

Correspondents:

Carley, J.F.

Westerind, L.G.

Combinatorial Math

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 11, folder 1

1963, August 19631967

Scope and Contents note

Column, references

Box 11, folder 2

Stamp Square 1963-1987

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Babcock, Richard

Dunsay, George

Box 11, folder 3

Computer Proofs of Hexagon 1963-1987

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Daly, William

Hansen, Wilfred

Linderson, G.W.

Kierstead, Friend

Wagner, Victoria

Pearlman, Robert

Shimshoni, M.S.

Mattheras, Elsie

Communication with Extraterrestrial Life

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 14, folder 19

1965, August [1 of 2] 1965-1967

Scope and Contents note

Project Ozma, etc

"Extraterrestrial Linguistics", by Solomon Golomb, 1961 (Reprint fomr Astronautics, 6/5, May 1961)

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Hein, Piet

Box 14, folder 20

Communication with Extraterrestrial Life [2 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

articles, newsprint

Box 14, folder 21

Mars & Extraterrestrial Communication 1965-1966

Box 14, folder 22

Bell's Problem 1964

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Field, Mary K. (Mrs. Richard T.)

Conway Biz (Surreal Nos)

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 37, folder 7

1976, September 1959-1976

Scope and Contents note

Partial column.

Prime Nim, Prim, Welter's game

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Shannon, Claude

Barnet, Alan

Hein, Piet

Ulam, Stanislav

Box 37, folder 8

Knuth's Surreal Numbers & On Conway's Constructions 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Halmos, Paul

Knuth, Donald

Berlekamp, Elwyn

Kruskal, Martin

Conway's "Game of Life"

Box 23, folder 5

1970, October undated

Scope and Contents note

Only some pieces from the article (others cut out.)

Conway's Life II

Box 23, folder 14

1971, February 1970

Scope and Contents note

Imcomplete article, single letter.

Cooks

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 16, folder 11

1966, May 1961-1966

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Wheeler, D.H.

Panea, Manuel

Macaluso, Pat

Box 16, folder 12

Dudeney's 15-Turn Rook Tour Problem 1966

Scope and Contents note

Many solutions.

Analysis by Wilfred Shepherd.

Correspondents:

Shepherd, Wilfred H.

Box 16, folder 13

Hunter & Bear Problem 1966

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Schwartz, Benjamin

Bay, John

Andrews, P.B.S.

Coxeter

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 7, folder 2

1961, April 1960-1961

Scope and Contents note

Many letters from Coxeter

Correspondents:

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Box 7, folder 3

Morley's Theorem 1943-1999

Scope and Contents note

Many articles (mostly proofs) on Morley's theorem

Crossing Numbers

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 27, folder 5

1973, June [1 of 2] 1962-1982

Scope and Contents note

"Ensnaring the Elusive Eodermdrome", by Gary S. Bloom (photocopy) (from Word Ways)

Various articles

Correspondents:

Harary, Frank

Miller, Donald

Basin, Stan

Steindel, Charles

Box 27, folder 6

Crossing Numbers [2of 2] 1973-1991

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Sheratte, Martin

Williams, Leo

Singer, David

Guy, Richard

Hill, Anthony

Csaszar Polyhedron

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 32, folder 18

1975, May 1972-1986

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article

Papers on Steiner Triple Systems, Steiner Quadruple Systems, etc, including (photocopy of) Csaszer article.

Correspondents:

Crowe, Donald

Stewart, Bonnie

Frederickson, Greg

Box 32, folder 19

Room Squares undated

Scope and Contents note

A type of magic square, by T.G. Room

Various articles on Room Squares

Correspondents:

Crowe, Donald

Mullin, Ronald

Box 32, folder 20

Schmucker's Toroid Rings 1975

Scope and Contents note

Toroid rings: 8 octahedra, 8 dodecahedra, 8 icosahedra (and photos of them)

Correspondents:

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Stewart, Bonnie

Schmucker, Kurt

Box 32, folder 21

Hadamard Matrices 1975-1986

Scope and Contents note

Several articles

"Higher-Dimensional Hadamard Matrices", by Paul Shlichta (typescript)

Correspondents:

Sloane, N.J.A.

Golomb, Solomon

Sclichta, Paul

Cyclic No's

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 22, folder 15

1970, March 1986

Scope and Contents note

Articles & MG notes

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Box 22, folder 16

Shortcuts in Identifying & Computing 1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Yates, Samuel

Box 22, folder 17

142857 As Magic Trick 1955-1959

Scope and Contents note

(Cylies in Magic & Light. Calc) [must mean cycles]

"Die Magische Roulette" (Magic trick)

Correspondents:

Van Klaveren, F.W.

Box 22, folder 18

Cyclics in Other Base Systems 1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Koehl, Frederick

Ferguson, Shaun

Box 22, folder 19

Higher Order Cycles 1968-1990

Scope and Contents note

"A Pre-Eminent Decimal", by C.C. Corbet (typescript)

Box 22, folder 20

Cyclic "Magic" Squares 1975, 1978

Scope and Contents note

"Peculiarities of Prime Numbers", by John Ward (typescript)

Correspondents:

Card, L.E.

Ward, John

Cycloid

Box 13, folder 9

1964, July 1964

Scope and Contents note

History discussion (Pascal vs Torricelli) by Alexandre Rothan

Correspondents:

Rothan, A.

Miller, Julius

White, Robert

Diag's of Algebraic Identities

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 27, folder 11

1973, October (2D&3D) 1973

Scope and Contents note

"Look-See" Proofs

Diagrams of Algebraic Identities (now called "Proofs Without Words")

No article

Lots of MG notes

Correspondents:

McIntosh, Alistair

O'Beirne, Thomas

Smith, Cedric

Box 27, folder 12

33+43+53=63 Dissection (Wheeler, Duffy, etc) 1973-1994

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Duffy, Emmet

O'Beirne, Thomas

Dice

Box 20, folder 15

1968, November undated

Scope and Contents note

Just article (and references)

Digital Roots

Box 4, folder 1

1958, July 1954-1974

Scope and Contents note

"Some diverting tricks which involve the concept of numberical congruence"

number tricks

magic trick: "Remembering the Future", by Stewart James

Correspondents:

Rupert, John

James, Stewart

Eliasberg, Jay

McCracken, Daniel

Buky, Anne

Digraphs

Box 50, folder 9

1980, March 1980-1996

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Correspondents:

Harary, Frank

Parley, Richard

Diophantine Analysis

Box 22, folder 27

1970, July undated

Scope and Contents note

Just article

Dissection Problems

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 7, folder 24

1961, November 1961-1968

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Gilson, Bruce

Lindgren, Harry

Beyer, William

Egan, Catherine

Grover, William

Van De Sande, Leo

Box 7, folder 25

Lindgren Material 1961-1964

Scope and Contents note

Much correspondence between Gardner and Lindgren, many dissections

Correspondents:

Lindgren, Harry

Eves, Howard

Dividing Figures into n Equal Parts

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 40, folder 10

1977, July 1976-1977

Scope and Contents note

No article

Lots of MG notes

Correspondents:

Von Meyenfeldt, Carl

Box 40, folder 11

The 3,4,5 Triangle Quartering 1977

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Von Meyenfeldt, Carl

Phipps, Cecil

Box 40, folder 12

Trisection & Quadrature Puzzles 1984-1985

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Box 40, folder 13

Bisection Puzzles 1977-1985

Scope and Contents note

Lots of examples

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Shortz, Will

Berloquin, Pierre

Box 40, folder 14

Bisection Puzzles (Theory) 1977-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Vinokur, Marcel

Ward, Coburn

Knuth, Donald

Divisibility Rules

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 9, folder 4

1962, September 1962-1999

Scope and Contents note

Lots of (short) articles

Box 9, folder 5

On division by 7 1962-1977

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kassel, Louis

Merrill, R.

Charosh, Mannis

Lyons, Vosburgh (VOS)

Golomb, Solomon

Chodosch, Robert

Becker, Joseph

Fairbairn, R.

Dollar Bills

Box 20, folder 2

1968, April 1955-1985

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Heath, Royal

Lyons, Vosburgh (VOS)

Duncan, Fred

Dominoes

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 22, folder 7

1969, December 1969

Scope and Contents note

No article

"Domino Triplets: A General Solution", by Wade Philpott (typescript)

"Dominoes", by Professor Hoffmann, 1899 (photocopy

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Card, L.E.

Pijanowski, Lech

Brooke, Maxey

Box 22, folder 8

Domino Magic Squares 1969-1970

Scope and Contents note

Long analysis by Peter Roeder

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Box 22, folder 9

Straight Chains & Bracelets 1969

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Trigg, Charles

Double Acrostics

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 19, folder 10

1967, September 1967

Scope and Contents note

Article

Correspondents:

Borgmann, Dmitri

Box 19, folder 11

Carroll's D-Acrostic 1966-1968

Scope and Contents note

Many suggestions

Correspondents:

Rowe, R.Robinson

Borgmann, Dmitri

Doug Hofstadter

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 48, folder 11

1979, July [1 of 2] 1978-1983

Scope and Contents note

Scott Kim's summary of GEB.

Doug Hofstadter's summary of GEB.

Doug Hofstadter's comments & corrections of the first draft of the column

Correspondents:

Kim, Scott

Hofstadter, Douglas

Box 48, folder 12

Doug Hofstadter [2 of 2] 1979

Scope and Contents note

More Hofstadter comments for the column.

"Setting Dinner to Music", a Culinary Offering, by Dorothy Denning (typescript): description of a dinner in the style of A Musical Offering, inspired by Hofstadter's book.

Various reviews of GEB.

Correspondents:

Kim, Scott

Hofstadter, Douglas

Denning, Dorothy

Dr. Matrix

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 11, folder 23

1964, January 1964

Scope and Contents note

Just the column

Box 11, folder 24

Four 4's (and n Fours) [1 of 2] 1964

Scope and Contents note

MANY solutions

Correspondents:

Lindgren, Harry

Box 11, folder 25

Four 4's (and n Fours) [2 of 2] 1964-1976

Scope and Contents note

MANY solutions

Dr. Matrix - 5

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 14, folder 1

1965, January 1965-1968

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Glasheen, Adaline

Cheney, Fitch

Box 14, folder 2

Self-Replication Digits & Kaprekar's "6174" 1965-1987

Scope and Contents note

Methods of solving the 4-digit puzzle

Correspondents:

Schaaf, William

Card, L.E.

Arnold, T.E.

Box 14, folder 3

Ruler Problems 1964-1998

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Vaughan, Herbert

Haubrich, Richard

Van Touren, A.

Hodgart, Mathew

Leech, John

Dr. Matrix - Earthquake Column

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 43, folder 1

1977, December 1971-1978

Scope and Contents note

Computer printout of names of numbers, 0-999, alphabetical

"Alphabetic Number Tables 0-1000", 1972 (MIT) - numbers and Roman Numberals (booklet)

Correspondents:

Mercer, Leigh

Box 43, folder 2

Festoons 1977

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kierstead, Friend

Box 43, folder 3

Punk Rock undated

Scope and Contents note

Lots of newspaper articles on Punk (the music and the people)

Dr. Matrix - ESP Test

Box 27, folder 8

1973, August undated

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Newman, James R.

Dr. Matrix - Numerology

Box 5, folder 17

1960, January 1958-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Halsey, Eric

Winters, M.

March, Georgianna

Lindgren, Harry

Dernham, Monte

Melton, John

Dr. Matrix - Sing Sing

Box 9, folder 15

1963, January 1963

Scope and Contents note

Just the article, plus clipping on sing-sing.

Dr. Matrix - The Moon Landing, etc.

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 22, folder 1

1969, October 1969-1974

Box 22, folder 2

Prob. of Points on Sphere 1969

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Goldberg, Michael

Box 22, folder 3

ABCDE x 7 = FGHIJ (SPIRO x 7 = AGNEW) 1969-1972

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Trigg, Charles

Box 22, folder 4

Reverse Months & Fri. 13 1969-1981

Box 22, folder 5

On 1969 1969

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Mosteller, Frederick

Knuth, Donald

Dr. Matrix & D.M.

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 37, folder 14

1976, November 1976-1999

Scope and Contents note

No article. "D.M.": Digital Meditation.

(Also mentions "P.M." for Pentagonal Meditation.

Spherical Trigonometry and "QWuints".

Many letters from Sam Dalal

Correspondents:

Dalal, Sam

Bostrom, Robert

Box 37, folder 15

On Calcutta undated

Scope and Contents note

Clippings & articles on Calcutta.

Dr. Matrix & Pyramid

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 30, folder 2

1974, June 1974

Scope and Contents note

Various travel info on Pyramid Lake

Box 30, folder 3

Numbering -the-Pyramid problem 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Gutgasz, Hiram Fuller

Box 30, folder 4

Readers Who Took Column Seriously 1974

Scope and Contents note

Mail to SA & MG, as well as replies from both MG and publishers

Box 30, folder 5

Pyramid Guide 1974

Scope and Contents note

A Bi-Monthly newsletter, issues 7-10,12-13, plus "First Year Annual 1972-1973" (bound issues 1-6)

Box 30, folder 6

Pyramid-Canada undated

Scope and Contents note

Mostly newspaper articles on sports team using pyramid power

Box 30, folder 7

Pyramid Power [1 of 2] 1973-1975

Scope and Contents note

Lots of newspaper articles, ads, research

Correspondents:

Roosevelt, Cornelius Van S.

Box 30, folder 8

Pyramid Power [2 of 2] 1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Ebon, Martin

Dr. Matrix Chess Game

Box 23, folder 13

1971, January 1969-1971

Scope and Contents note

Matrix # 11

No article

Dr. Matrix III

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 6, folder 21

1961, January 1961-1970

Scope and Contents note

Antimagic squares

Box 6, folder 22

Miss T's Phone No 1961

Scope and Contents note

Moving digits from one end of a number to the other (transposing end digit)

Correspondents:

Hastings, Don

Dr. Matrix in Houston (Perpetual Motion)

Box 24, folder 20

1972, February 1971

Scope and Contents note

Matrix # 12

Correspondents:

Soph, Bing

Dr. Matrix in Istanbul

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 51, folder 11

1980, September 1976-1980

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Nelson, Harry

Goodman, Gary

Morton, E.

Buhler, Joe

Box 51, folder 12

Istanbul 1980

Scope and Contents note

Many newspaper articles on Istanbul.

Letters correcting geography & language mistakes in column.

Box 51, folder 13

Trisections of the Cube 1980

Scope and Contents note

Infinite number of trisections.

Dr. Matrix in Squaresville

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 19, folder 20

1968, January 1968-1977

Box 19, folder 21

Hippies 1968

Scope and Contents note

Many newspaper articles

Box 19, folder 22

Buttons 1968

Scope and Contents note

Various "short quotes" and pictures for buttons, ads, pictures.

Dr. Matrix on Bible

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 33, folder 18

1975, September 1971-1976

Scope and Contents note

Letters to the editor from later issues

Early typescript of article

Correspondents:

Flanagan, Dennis

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Van Roosevelt, Cornelius

Box 33, folder 19

Bible & Word Play 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Many notes from Dmitri Borgmann on number & word play in the bible

Correspondents:

Borgmann, Dmitri

Dr. Matrix's Robot

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 46, folder 13

1978, December 1977-1979

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Djinni robot, and ROBOT program

Correspondents:

Walker, Jearl

Box 46, folder 14

Kt Switch 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

Problems exchanging knight (on a chessboard and smaller)

Mauldon's variants (on knight exchange)

Correspondents:

Mauldon, James

Schwartz, Benjamin

Box 47, folder 1

NKST 1978

Scope and Contents note

Words with the letters "NKST" in the middle.

Box 47, folder 2

1/3 Chinese 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

Can one be 1/3 Chinese?

Box 47, folder 3

Soc. Sec. No. 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

9-digit number, where product of first n digits is divisable by n, for all n 1-9.

Dudeney

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 3, folder 11

1958, June 1958-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Glasheen, Adaline

Verbeek, C.C.

Box 3, folder 12

Mrs. Fulleylove & Diary 1960-1977

Scope and Contents note

Margery Fulleylove, Dudeneys' daughter

James Fulleylove, his grandson

Alice Dudeney, wife of Henry, kept a diary, but it is not available. It has been "closed" until 2000.

Box 3, folder 13

Angela Newing 1981-1988

Scope and Contents note

Dudeney expert

Box 3, folder 14

Dudeney Scrapbook, Vol I 1972-1986

Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of scrapbook, containing articles, 1895-~1908

Box 3, folder 15

Dudeney Scrapbook, Vol II 1972

Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of scrapbook, containing articles, 1909-1915(?)

"e" & Catenary

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 7, folder 17

1961, October 1960-1999

Scope and Contents note

'e', the exponential constant

Mostly articles on 'e'

Correspondents:

O'Shea, Owen

Box 7, folder 18

Catenary and Tractrix Curve 1959-1998

Scope and Contents note

notes, articles

Correspondents:

Johansson, Torbjorn

Box 7, folder 19

Rational Fractions for 'e' 1961-1994

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hendrick, L.

Feldman, John

Clamage, Allan

Lewis, Donald

Patton, Robert

Brown, George

Heitz, Robert

Lassen, Herbert

Fuchs, Helmut

Box 7, folder 20

Mnemonics for 'e' 1957-1966

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Boucher, Claude

Angrick, Warren

Nottingham, R.

Guiteris, Joseph

Jarnagin, William

Sanet, Morton

Brooke, Maxey

Conklin, Edward

Krall, Al

Stand, M.

Greene, John

Swenson, Richard

Duncan, Fred

Widhoff, Gene

Keast, F.

Mage, David

Gianino, Peter

Gruenberger, Fred

Kerslake, R.

McKiggan, I.

Smiley, Richard

Box 7, folder 21

Curious Problems & Formulas Involving e 1961

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Isaacs, I. Martin

Moser, Leo

Heiting, Ted

Box 7, folder 22

Hatcheck Problem (or Matching Cards) undated

Scope and Contents note

Unsigned, undated typescript "To Be Solved With Ease"

Box 7, folder 23

Decimal Expansion of e 1965

Eggs

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 50, folder 10

1980, April 1980-1997

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Maxwell's Ovals

Box 50, folder 11

Letters on Egg & Bottle 1980

Eleusis II

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 42, folder 1

1977, October 1977-2001

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Varios other rules suggested.

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Box 42, folder 2

Papers on Eleusis 1980-1981

Box 42, folder 3

Research on Eleusis 1966-1982

Scope and Contents note

Several of Robert Abbott's newsletters

Correspondents:

Jaworski, John

Newman, J.Robert

Abbott, Robert

Dietterich, Thomas

Box 42, folder 4

Delphi (Kruskal) 1962-1977

Scope and Contents note

Copies of correspondance between Robert Abbott & Martin Kruskal

Correspondents:

Kruskal, Martin

Sackson, Sid

Box 42, folder 5

Pensari 1985

Scope and Contents note

Induction games by Robert Katz

Correspondents:

Katz, Robert

Elevators

Box 26, folder 6

1973, February 1972-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Sherin, Richard

Holmes, Robert

Golomb, Solomon

Ellipse

Box 6, folder 23

1961, February 1961-1999

ESP Machines - SRI (NASA)

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 34, folder 1

1975, October 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hoppe, Richard

Diaconis, Persi

Deutsch, Ronald

Jones, Earle

Box 34, folder 2

Development of Techniques ... 1974

Scope and Contents note

"Development of Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Comunication", by Russell Targ, Phyllis Cole, and aHarold Puthoff - Final Report for JPL, SRI Project 2613, Aug. 1974 (Technical Report)

Box 34, folder 3

Targ's ESP Machine undated

Scope and Contents note

Model 100A ESP Teaching Machine, Instruction Manual, from Aquarius Electronics (Manual)

Box 34, folder 4

Letters From Parapsychologists (P&T, Tart, Cole, Schneidler) 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Elgin, Duane

Cole, Phyllis

Puthoff, Harold

Targ, Russell

Schmeidler, Gertrude

Tart, Charles

Box 34, folder 5

ESP Testing Machines 1975

Scope and Contents note

Reviews & ads of some machines

"Testing for Extrasensory Perception With a Machine", by William Smith et.al., Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, Data Sciences Lab Project 4610, May, 1963 (Research Report)

Correspondents:

Scully, Tim (Aquarius Electronics)

Honorton, Charles

Everything

Box 36, folder 12

1976, May 1976

Scope and Contents note

Note (What is There?) by (or from ) Smullyan

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Tompkins, Robert

Factorials

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 19, folder 7

1967, August 1989

Scope and Contents note

article (incomplete)

Box 19, folder 8

R. E. Smith [1 of 2] 1967

Scope and Contents note

Original Robert Smith article on which the column was based, with correspondence.

Correspondents:

Smith, Robert

Flanagan, Dennis

Box 19, folder 9

R. E. Smith [1 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

Computer printouts of factorials in patterns

Fallacies

Box 3, folder 1

1958, January 1889-1984

Scope and Contents note

photocopy: Current Literature, April, 1889 "The Ten Travellers"

Correspondents:

Mooney, John

Allen, Ralph

Fibanacci Numbers

Box 21, folder 6

1969, March undated

Scope and Contents note

Just the article.

Fingers

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 20, folder 10

1968, September 1968-2000

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Ring, Ken

Box 20, folder 11

Finger Multipication undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

Box 20, folder 12

Counting & Number Bases 1958-1968

Scope and Contents note

Story: "How to Count on Your Fingers", by Fred Pohl

Article: "Mathematics and the Folkways", by Martin Gardner, in Journel of Philosophy, 47/7, March 1950

Mnemonic for Pi in base 8 (in Knuth letter)

Correspondents:

Pohl, Frederick

Knuth, Donald

Flatland & Hilton

Box 9, folder 1

1962, July 1961-1981

Scope and Contents note

"Do We Have a Two-Dimensional View of Crime and Deviance?" by Karen Paldan

Biography of C.H. Hinton, by T. Weston

Correspondents:

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Hayward, Roger

Robert, Gegory

Calhamer, Allan

Holmes, Larry

Weston, Timothy

Flexagons

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 1, folder 3

1956, December 1956-2000

Scope and Contents note

(Models in separate folder)

History of flexagons

models, comments, analysis

flexapyramids

Correspondents:

Mott-Smith, Geoffrey

Ransom, Tom

Templeton, Hugh

Little, John

Polyakov, N

George, Douglas

Box 1, folder 4

Bibliography, tearsheets of articles [1 of 2] 1956-1983

Scope and Contents note

The Curious Family of Flexagons, Frank R. Bernhart

Some Elements of Flexagon Theory, Frank R. Bernhart

Interim Report on Hexa-Hexa Aberrations, Donald Comstock 24 Apr, 1979

Box 1, folder 5

Bibliography, tearsheets of articles [2 of 2] 1954-1993

Scope and Contents note

Flexagon, Nauka i Zhizn (in Russian), 1970

Correspondents:

Tukey, John

Box 1, folder 6

Frank Bernhart's Work 1969 - 1993

Scope and Contents note

Counting flexagons with Feynman diagrams

On flexagon maps

"Some Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Flexagons" (Part 1)

"The Curious Flexagon Family"

Correspondents:

Mitchell, Phil

Fliess

Box 16, folder 17

1966, July 1966-1980

Game Learning Machines

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 8, folder 8

1962, March 1961-1977

Scope and Contents note

Hexapawn

Extendapawn

Various analyses of games and machines

Typescript of Hexapawn brochure, from W.R. Aul

Box 8, folder 9

Reader Reports on Hexapawn, Contests, etc. 1962-1965

Box 8, folder 10

Other Simple Learning Devices 1961-1995

Scope and Contents note

Computer "Family Tree" from Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer (BRLESC)

GLIM Learning Machine (Game Learning Intellegent Machine), by Russell Yost

NIMBLE (Nim Box Logic Engine) - Learns to play Nim

Tit Tat To machine

ACE - A Learning Machine

Box 8, folder 11

Reprints of Column & TV Use, etc. 1962-1967

Scope and Contents note

Including Mame Mamu Ka (Russian? magazine) - 1962

Nature and Science Magazine(1966)

Box 8, folder 12

"Baby" Games (Minigames) 1962

Scope and Contents note

Checkers - 4x4 Analysis (MG & W. Grandjean)

Go - 5x5 Analysis (MG & D. Nix)

Chess - 5x5

Pawns - 2x4 (2 matchboxes)

Box 8, folder 13

Checkers (5x5) 1962

Scope and Contents note

Analysis - MG, Knuth, Grandjean, Caswell

Correspondents:

Caswell, Robert L.

Grandjean, W.B.

Game Strategies

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 7, folder 9

1961, July 1961

Scope and Contents note

Just the article (about Bridg-it and Halma, the latter a variation of Chinese Checkers)

Box 7, folder 10

Bridg-It and Twixt [1 of 2] 1958-1963

Scope and Contents note

(Also called Gale.)

Full analysis by Alfred Lehman: "A Solution to the Shannon Switching Game"

Robot Gale players.

--> Booklet in separate envelope, of Gale layouts with instructions for the Game of Gale, marked "Season's Greetings! The Hatchers", about 4x4 inches.

Correspondents:

Shannon, Claude

Lehman, Alfred

Gross, Oliver

Gale, David

Hein, Piet

Box 7, folder 11

Bridg-It and Twixt [2 of 2] 1961-1977

Scope and Contents note

References to "Board Games folder".

"Bridg-it on the 1401", by Gunter Wenzel

Program (for Bridg-it) for HP-97, by Mordecai Schwartz

Correspondents:

Fergason, Thomas

Shepherd, Wilfred H.

Wenzel, Guenter

Reynolds, A.C.

Gale, David

Box 7, folder 12

Checker Problem 1961

Scope and Contents note

(related to Halma)

22 move solutions, 20 move solutions.

proof (by Vern Poythress) that 20 moves is minimum.

Correspondents:

Vanderpool, Donald

Durling, Allan

Poythrress, Vern

Game Theory

Box 19, folder 19

1967, December 1967-1971

Scope and Contents note

Morra - board and instructions (Piet Hein game).

Various papers by Rufas Isaacs

Correspondents:

Morgenstern, Oskar

Isaacs, Rufus

Games

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 26, folder 1

1973, January undated

Scope and Contents note

Sim, Chomp & Race Track

Mostly article + Ian Stewart article (on Chomp)

Box 26, folder 2

Sim 1972-1981

Scope and Contents note

Analyses: 5-Point Sim, 6-Point Sim, N-Point, Dual, Choice

Dual game analyzed by Leslie Shader (mimeograph)

Correspondents:

Shader, Leslie

Croach, Jesse

Erdos, Paul

Simmons, Gustavus

McLeod, John

Chandra, Ashok

Beeler, Michael

Harary, Frank

Box 26, folder 3

Race Track 1971-1974

Scope and Contents note

Sci. Am. Christmas card

Demolition Derby & other variants (James Henle)

Many variants

Correspondents:

Henle, James

Nievergelt, Jurg

Falconer, Tomas

Box 26, folder 4

Chomp [1 of 2] 1972-1973

Scope and Contents note

"A Curious Nim-type Game", by David Gale (mimeograph) - original game discription

"Game of Diisors", by Fred Schuh (typescript) translation by G.J.Westerink

Correspondents:

Gale, David

Thompson, Ken

Winker, Steve

Westerink, G.J.

Beeler, Michael

Nelson, Harry

Lunon, Fred

Box 26, folder 5

Chomp [2 of 2] 1972-1986

Scope and Contents note

Partial analysis of 3xN Chomp, from F. Bernhart

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Westerink, G.J.

Games (Jam, Hot, Etc.)

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 18, folder 8

1967, February 1967

Scope and Contents note

just article.

Box 18, folder 9

Kayles (String Nim) 1964-1967

Scope and Contents note

analysis by Henon

Correspondents:

Henon, Michel

Spoerl, Charles

Epstein, Richard

Box 18, folder 10

Squad Car Game 1966

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Isaacs, Rufus

Geometric Fallacies

Box 23, folder 16

1971, April 1971

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Correspondents:

Leech, John

Golomb's Graceful Graphs

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 24, folder 21

1972, March [1 of 2] 1972-1977

Scope and Contents note

Many & various articles.

"My views of the Problem", by Takashi Wakui, from Fascinating Puzzles Monthly No. 36, July, 1968 (photocopy)

Correspondents:

Simmons, Gustavus

Golomb, Solomon

Lagarior, Jeff

Box 24, folder 22

Golomb's Graceful Graphs [2 of 2] 1965-1985

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hollingsworth, Lowell

Hodgart, Mathew

Reid, Robert

Chandra, Ashok

Ashenfelter, Robert

Robertson, Douglas

Box 24, folder 23

Results, etc, from Readers on Graceful Graphs 1972-1994

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Mixon, Bill

Harries, Wolfgang

Box 24, folder 24

Disproof of Golomb Conjecture 1974

Scope and Contents note

"Large Graceful Subgraphs of the Complete Graph", by Gustavus Simmons (typescript)

Correspondents:

Simmons, Gustavus

Van Rongen, J.B.

Leech, John

Golomb, Solomon

Box 24, folder 25

Recent Papers - Golomb, etc 1982-1984

Scope and Contents note

(Referenced in latest version of column in "Wheels, Life ...")

Graphs

Box 13, folder 1

1964, April 1964

Scope and Contents note

Application of Hamiltonian Lines to hydrocarbons (in Eckroth letter)

Correspondents:

Meally, Victor

Knowlton, Kenneth

Eckroth, David

Gray Codes (& Chinese Rings)

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 25, folder 12

1972, August [1 of 2] 1972-1974

Scope and Contents note

Various articles.

The Brain, puzzle from Mag-Nif, by Marvin Allison, Jr.

"Cyclic Codes in Analog-to-Digital Encoders", by Chas. Cole (photocopy)

Correspondents:

Allison, Marvin

Deutsch, E.

Box 25, folder 13

Gray Codes (& Chinese Rings) [2 of 2] 1972-1997

Scope and Contents note

Gray's patent (Pulse Code Communication), 1953

Gray Codes & Dragon Curves (in George Darwin letter)

Stibitz Patent (Binary Counter), 1943 (predates Gray?)

Puzzles based on Gray codes (see Leslie Upton letter)

"The Treasure of Grayham Binar" (also Leslie Upton letter)

"Lucky Light", by Dave Lederman (magic trick)

Correspondents:

Darwin, George

Stibitz, George

Knuth, Donald

Upton, Leslie

Cipra, Barry

Box 25, folder 14

Chinese Rings 1972-1998

Scope and Contents note

Various commercial rings, Princeps Puzzle (electronic)

Correspondents:

Golomb, Michael

Knuth, Donald

Ray, David

Rasmussen, Peter

Box 25, folder 15

Paths in N-Cubes 1972-1985

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Read, Ronald

Bradford, L.E.

Harary, Frank

Winkler, Steve

Bell, Alex

Vanderschel, David

Groups (Finite)

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 51, folder 1

1980, June 1980

Scope and Contents note

No article (see next folder: 51/2)

MG notes.

Lots of short articles on groups (& revies of books on groups.)

Box 51, folder 2

Sporatic Groups 1968-1980

Scope and Contents note

SA article.

Golomb lists errors in column.

Lots of MG notes, articles, etc.

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Grossman, Israel

Lyons, Richard

Gorenstein, Dan

Griess, Robert

McKay, John

Box 51, folder 3

Lie (Infinite) Groups undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes, a couple of book reviews

Box 51, folder 4

Galois undated

Scope and Contents note

Articles on Galois, mostly by Tony Rothman.

Guy - On Primes

Box 52, folder 1

1980, December 1980-1981

Scope and Contents note

Notes from Richard Guy. Relates to column & contains number curios NOT dealing with primes (& usable in Future Columns.)

Correspondents:

Guy, Richard

Philpott, Wade

Mullin, Albert

Yates, Samuel

Hakenbush

Box 24, folder 19

1972, January undated

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Halma

Physical Description: 9 folder(s)

Box 24, folder 6

1971, October undated

Scope and Contents note

Just article & rules for Halma (& references)

Box 24, folder 7

Halma papers by Elithorn 1971

Scope and Contents note

Many papers: preprints, typescripts, reprints, etc.

Box 24, folder 8

Halma Computer Programs undated

Box 24, folder 9

Transfer Problems 1971-1983

Scope and Contents note

Lots of solutions, by MG and others.

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Fujimura, Kobon

Harris, John

Box 24, folder 10

Halma Solitaire Problems 1971

Scope and Contents note

Mostly MG notes and solutions

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Box 24, folder 11

3x3 undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Box 24, folder 12

4x4 undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Box 24, folder 13

5x5 Square 1971

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Correspondents:

Widdeer, Vera

Gordon, Leonard

Box 24, folder 14

6x6 Square undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Hamilton's Icosian Game

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 2, folder 1

1957, May 1957

Scope and Contents note

Icosian Game

Tower of Hanoi

Hamiltonian Path

(Polyominoes)

Box 2, folder 2

Tower of Hanoi [1 of 2] 1957-1983

Scope and Contents note

All you ever wanted to know about The Towers of Hanoi but were afraid to ask, by W.F. Lunnon

Correspondents:

Walsh, Timothy

Katz, Sylvan

Moeser, Robert

Armstron, H.

Paciulan, Kenneth

Revennaugh, Vance

Lunnon, Fred

Box 2, folder 3

Tower of Hanoi [2 of 2] 1957-1998

Scope and Contents note

(see model "The Great Pyramid", in box xxx)

Ad, in French, of "Jeux Scientifiques" of Edouard Lucas

The Towers of Hanoi" by Jay Kappraff and Gary Adamson

Correspondents:

Crowe, Donald

Knuth, Donald

Harary's Generalized TTT

Box 48, folder 3

1979, April 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

"Achievement and Avoidance Games", by Frank Harary (typescript) -- written for MG for this column. (Talks about various games, and Ramsey Theory.)

Correspondents:

Harary, Frank

Austin, A.K.

Helix

Box 10, folder 9

1963, June 1960-1989

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Katsanis, Theodore

Lind, Douglas

Brown, Robert

Hex

Box 2, folder 5

1957, July 1957-2000

Scope and Contents note

History and discussion about Hex (MG, Nash, Gale)

Con-Tac-Tix (a Piet Hein game)

Correspondents:

Nash, John

Golomb, Solomon

Stover, Mel

Shannon, Claude

Gale, David

Milnor, John

Hayward, Ryan

Van Ryswyck, Jack

Browne, Cameron

Hexes & Stars

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 30, folder 9

1974, July 1972-1978

Scope and Contents note

Photocopy of column, plus some partial cut-outs of the column & some corrections for next month.

Box 30, folder 10

Square Triangles 1960-1988

Scope and Contents note

"The Address Problem", by Michael Tennor (typescript)

"Triangular-Square-Pentagonal Numbers", by R.J. Stroeker, Report 7701/M, Econometric Inst, Erasmus University

Correspondents:

Tennor, Michael

Furry, W.H.

Adler, Irving

Jankovich, Gradimir

Box 30, folder 11

Hexes 1974-1986

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Grinstead, Charles

Shallit, Jeffrey

Hitotumatu, Sin

Box 30, folder 12

Star Numbers 1973-1974

Scope and Contents note

Lots of MG notes

Computer listing of some factorials, printed in "star" format

Correspondents:

Card, L.E.

Milwee, George

McKay, John

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Harris, John

Box 30, folder 13

Triangle Stars 1973

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Correspondents:

Meally, Victor

Wainwright, Robert

Box 30, folder 14

Square Stars 1973

Scope and Contents note

notes

Correspondents:

Meally, Victor

Box 30, folder 15

The Pell Equation 1973

Hexiamonds

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 13, folder 18

1964, December 1958-1973

Scope and Contents note

much general information, history, proofs, and solutions

Lewis also deals with non-connected pieces, and ones connected at vertices. Draft of article.

Correspondents:

Williams, Merideth

Povah, Maurice

Struyk, Adrian

Haselgrove, Jenifer

Lewis, Charles

Schaffer, Karl

Box 13, folder 19

New Material From Readers 1964-1983

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Reid, Robert

Struyk, Adrian

Card, L.E.

Philpott, Wade

Box 13, folder 20

The 66 Octiamonds & Higher 1964-1975

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Penrose, Roger

Escher, Mauritis C.

Box 13, folder 21

The Rhombi 1964-1966

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Struyk, Adrian

Philpott, Wade

Fletcher, John

Box 13, folder 22

Triplication Problems (and Twin, etc) 1964-1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Hyperbola

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 41, folder 12

1977, September 1961-1977

Scope and Contents note

No article

Thigs of Science: Curve Unit, No. 139 (Instructiions)

MG notes

Correspondents:

Cibulskis, Walter

Klein, Arthur

Box 41, folder 13

Hyperboloids 1977

Scope and Contents note

Information on McDonnell Planetarium

Slides & photos of McDonnell shadows

Correspondents:

Sutherland, Ronald

I Ching

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 28, folder 5

1974, January [1 of 2] 1970-1974

Scope and Contents note

No article (but issue cover)

Correspondents:

Diaconis, Persi

Chen, S.T.

Box 28, folder 6

I Ching [2 of 2] 1974-1980

Scope and Contents note

"I Ching Oracles", magic trick by Sam Dalal, in Swami, Sept. 1974

"Pattern in the Arrangements of the Trigrams of the I Ching", by Nicholas Bolton & Nicol Macleod (typescript)

Correspondents:

Bolton, Nicholas

Box 28, folder 7

The Unsolved Problem of Hexagram Ordering 1973-1986

Scope and Contents note

"Defining Two Sequences of the Hexagrams in the I Ching by Their Linear Symbols", by Mou-Ta Chen (typescript)

"The Riddle of the Number Sequence of the Chines I Ching - a Geomantic Solution", by Norbert Muller (thpescript)

Correspondents:

Miller, Aaron

Box 28, folder 8

N-Cube in Anthropology 1976

Scope and Contents note

"N-Cubes in Anthropological Theory", by Hans Hoffman, 1975 (typescript): paper includes section on I Ching as lattice.

Correspondents:

Hoffmann, Hans

Imaginary & Complex Numbers

Box 48, folder 13

1979, August 1965-1979

Scope and Contents note

Notes and articles

Correspondents:

Kierstead, Friend

Induction Paradoxes

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 36, folder 1

1976, March 1976-1986

Scope and Contents note

Only snippet of article

"Urning a Resolution of Hempel's Paradox", by Stuart Meyer (typescript)

Correspondents:

Meyer, Stuart

Good, Jack

Box 36, folder 2

Solomonoff's Work 1976

Scope and Contents note

Articles by Solomonoff

Correspondents:

Solomonoff, Ray

Box 36, folder 3

Letters on the Pies 1976

Scope and Contents note

*Lots* of letters

Correspondents:

Pratt, John

Berent, Paul

Good, Robert

Wittman, Donald

Blyth, Colin

Inducton Games

Box 5, folder 1

1959, June 1959-1964

Scope and Contents note

Eleusis

The Game of Eleusis

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Weinberg, Gerald

Joke Problems

Box 10, folder 5

1963, April 1962-1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Weber, William

Joke Quickies

Box 20, folder 9

1968, August 1968

Knights & "Cooks"

Box 19, folder 12

1967, October 1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Bruce, Robert

Vasco, Charles

Isaacs, Rufus

Shepherd, Wilfred H.

Reid, Robert

Knots

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 7, folder 16

1961, September 1959-1961

Scope and Contents note

Huffman correspondence: lots of drawings

Correspondents:

Huffman, David

Norman, Richard

Box 53, folder 15

1983, September 1983-1996

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Penrose magic trick.

Correspondents:

Brown, Frederick (IGKT)

Thompson, Don

Rolfsen, Dale

Trotter, Hale

Penrose, Roger

Knotted Torus

Box 25, folder 19

1972, December 1958-1982

Scope and Contents note

Proofs no 2 knots cancel.

A torus, embedded in 3-space, can be knotted in only 2 ways

Cutting a 2-hole solid torus to produce an outside knotted solid torus

... and more

Turning an Arbitrary Two-Sided Surface Inside-Out

"Untying a Knotted Torus", by John Stillwell (typescript)

Correspondents:

Asimov, Dan

Stasheff, James

Bing, R.H.

Stillwell, John

Laffer

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 53, folder 6

1981, December 1981-1991

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Correspondents:

Dennett, Daniel

Flanagan, Dennis

Box 53, folder 7

Letters on Laffer Col. 1981-1982

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Rocourt, Georges

Briland, Joseph

Box 53, folder 8

Phillips Curve 1985

Scope and Contents note

MG notes & some articles.

Box 53, folder 9

Laffer Curve II 1981-1985

Scope and Contents note

Mostly newspaper articles (1984, 1985) on Reagan economics & Laffer.

Latin Squares

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 5, folder 9

1959, November 1959-1975

Scope and Contents note

Graeco-Latin Square

Design of Experiments (notes by MG)

"Theoretical Studies on Orthogonal Latin Squares", by R. Aravamudhan (Orthogonal Array)

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Scott, Frank

Betts, Donald

Box 5, folder 10

Order-10 Projective Plane (non-exixtance of) 1988-1993

Box 5, folder 11

Arkins Work 1972-1982

Scope and Contents note

Eulerian Magic Cube Problem of Order Ten

Correspondents:

Arkin, Joseph

Box 5, folder 12

Parker - Articles and Letters 1959-1963

Scope and Contents note

Orthogonal Latin Squares

Box 5, folder 13

Latin Cubes 1970-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Taylor, Walter

Peters, James

Arkin, Joseph

Box 5, folder 14

Bachet's Order-4 Card puzzle 1959-1960

Scope and Contents note

analyses by Pugh and Goldenberg

Correspondents:

Pugh, A. Henry

Goldenberg, Bernard

Karfunkel

Box 5, folder 15

Diagonal Provisos and Arkins 10x10 1967-1993

Scope and Contents note

Orghogonal Latin Square, Eulerian Square

Correspondents:

Black, Norton

Most, Mel

Knuth, Donald

Lattice of Integers

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 14, folder 13

1965, May 1962-1965

Scope and Contents note

"Visibility of Primes", by Robert B. Ely, III (typescript)

Correspondents:

Ely, Robert

Pryde, Geroge

Naranan, S.

Box 14, folder 14

Billiard Problem & G.C.D. Finder 1961-1977

Scope and Contents note

Patent 2,978,816 (GED Finder), A. Zarrotsky

Correspondents:

Becker, Joseph

Hayes, Brian

Left vs. Right

Box 3, folder 5

1958, March 1958

Scope and Contents note

About left- and right-handedness, mirror images and kindred matters

Correspondents:

Wiener, R.S.

Silver, Helen

Reis, Richard

Letters - Col. in general

Box 1, folder 1

Letters - Col. in general 13 Apr 1989 - 13 Apr 1997

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Schwenk, Allen

Zimmermann, Mark

Lewis Carroll

Box 6, folder 1

1960, March 1960

Scope and Contents note

Only column; points to Doublets folder

Lightning Calculating Tricks

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 19, folder 1

1967, May 1946-1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Jaques, Richard

Becker, Joseph

De Grote, L.H.

Hempel, Carl

Box 19, folder 2

Wallace Lee's Trick For Multipication "Magic No's" 1967-1972

Scope and Contents note

Copies of "Swami"

Dividing by 7 tricks

Correspondents:

Dalal, Sam

Lee, Wallace

Limits of Infinite Series

Box 13, folder 17

1964, November 1964

Scope and Contents note

article only (refers to separate folder)

Logic

Box 4, folder 15

1959, February 1956-1959

Scope and Contents note

Smith-Jones-Robinson problem (Dudeney's problem)

Colored hats (Smullyan)

Eddington problem "The Four Liars"

"An Experiment in Symbolic Work on the IBM 704", by John Kemeny, 1956

Correspondents:

Biddy, Charles

Youngdahl, C.A.

Watson, R.

Jonelis, John

Smullyan, Raymond

Hollo, Julius

McMillan, Brockway

Fletcher, John

Manheimer, Wallace

Bookstan, John

Fielding, James

Osborn, Sidney

Hooven, Frederick

Matzger, Alan

M-Pire Problem (& Map Coloring)

Box 50, folder 8

1980, February 1978-1980

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Taylor, Herbert

M.C. Escher

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 16, folder 4

1966, April [1 of 2] 1964-1985

Scope and Contents note

cloth "print" of Fishes & Birds (original??)

Correspondents:

Fomenko, A.J.

Sakane, Itsuo

Box 16, folder 5

M.C. Escher [2 of 2] 1997-1998

Scope and Contents note

various newprint articles

Box 16, folder 6

Correspondence - Corny Roosevelt 1965-1981

Scope and Contents note

Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt

(Photocopies of letters from Escher to Roosevelt)

2 uncancelled Netherlands stamps designed by Escher

Correspondents:

Roosevelt, Cornelius Van S.

Box 16, folder 7

Correspondence - Escher 1961-1981

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Escher, Mauritis C.

Roosevelt, Cornelius Van S.

Box 16, folder 8

About Escher [1 of 2] 1967-1999

Scope and Contents note

various articles about Escher

Correspondents:

Schattschneider, Doris

Graham, John

Emmer, M.

Box 16, folder 9

About Escher [2 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

Newsprint articles about Escher

Box 16, folder 10

Photos, Prints, Postcards 1971-1989

Scope and Contents note

From an envelop, returning them from Doris Schattschneider to Martin Gardner.

About 8 photos, 22 cards, 8 illus.

Correspondents:

Schattschneider, Doris

Roosevelt, Cornelius Van S.

Jacobs, Harold

MacMahan & 30 Cubes

Physical Description: 9 folder(s)

Box 45, folder 9

1978, September [1 of 2] 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

No article.

"Some Notes on the 30 6-color Cubes,", by M.G. Harman (typescript)

Correspondents:

Harman, Michael

Sonneborg, Henry III

Box 45, folder 10

1978, September [2 of 2] 1978-1992

Scope and Contents note

"Tori of Colored Cubes", by Zoltan Perjes (typescript)

[note on Szilassi 7-hedron, in G.B. Lamb letter]

Photo of Percy MacMahan

Correspondents:

Perjes, Zoltan

Andrews, George

Moskovich, Ivan

Cameron, Peter

Westerlink, G.

Box 45, folder 11

Conway - 30 Cubes 1970-1992

Scope and Contents note

MG notes & Conway notes.

"Thought Cubes", by Moti Ashkenazi & Ehud Artzi (instructions)

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Voz (Vosburgh Lyons)

Box 45, folder 12

8-Block Problems 1967-1971

Scope and Contents note

Various note and proofs, especially of Mayblox & 8 Blocks to Madness.

Notes & colorings, by N.W. Johnson, Eric Cross

Correspondents:

Bernhart, Frank

Philpott, Wade

Davis, Harry

Box 45, folder 13

Armbruster Set 1970-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with Frank Armbruster on MG booklet for 30 cubes.

Box 45, folder 14

MacMahan, Book On, etc 1971-1978

Scope and Contents note

Photo copies & thpescripts of MacMahon articles & other notes on his works

Correspondents:

Andrews, George

Box 45, folder 15

Color Cubes - Other Sets 1961-1972

Scope and Contents note

Various sets of cubes: 27 cube game, a 27-cube set, 23 cubes, colored polyhedra, 57 cubes, colored edge cubes

Correspondents:

Meek, William

Box 45, folder 16

Instant Insanity [1 of 2] 1963-1968

Scope and Contents note

6 cube forms

Lots of solutions

Box 45, folder 17

Instant Insanity [2 of 2] 1968-1975

Scope and Contents note

"Instant Insanity and the Theory of Groups", by W.E. Glass (typescript)

"Color Craze", by Frank Bernhart (9 color cube)

Correspondents:

Card, L.E.

Feldman, Dan

Magic

Box 13, folder 10

1964, August 1964

Scope and Contents note

article only

Magic & Probability

Box 48, folder 4

1979, May 1971-1984

Scope and Contents note

"Say Red", Futigawa's 4-card Prediction, The Red Card Prediction

Correspondents:

Diaconis, Persi

Connelly, Robert

Howard, John

Isaacs, Rufus

Magic Convention

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 9, folder 2

1962, August 1961-1979

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Fowler, James

Cheney, Fitch

Jedwab, Jonathan

Brecht, L.E.A.

Box 9, folder 3

Four-Card Problem 1953-1998

Scope and Contents note

descriptions and analyses

Magic Matrix

Box 1, folder 7

1957, January 1957-1978

Scope and Contents note

Magic square

Addition table

Matrix force

Calendar magic

"Doth", by Phil Goldstein (Magic tricks based on Gilbreath principle)

Correspondents:

Stover, Mel

Lyons, Phil

Kruskal, William

Goldstein, Phil

Subjects and Indexing Terms

magic tricks

Magic Squares

Box 4, folder 16

1959, March 1959

Scope and Contents note

see magic square folders (just the article is in this folder.)

Magic Squares & Cubes

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 35, folder 1

1976, January undated

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article

Correspondents:

Staib, John

Box 35, folder 2

Magic Cubes [1 of 3] 1975-2000

Scope and Contents note

Many cubes, and theories of consstruction in both letters & articles

Correspondents:

Lamb, Gil

Handricks, John

Loewy, Manfred

Taylor, Walter

Box 35, folder 3

Magic Cubes [2 of 3] 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

"M-Dimensional Queen's Lattices and Magic Arrays", by I.P. Howard (typescript)

Correspondents:

Howard, Ian P.

Walker, Robert

Chaffer, robert

Benson, William

Bird, John

Box 35, folder 4

Magic Cubes [3 of 3] 1975-2000

Scope and Contents note

"Franklyn Magic Cubes", by Donald Piele (typescript)

(Also article on Game of Life, by Piele)

Correspondents:

Piele, Donald

Dorrell, Philip

Benson, William

Ondrejka, Rudolf

Straus, E.G.

Lamb, Gil

Box 35, folder 5

Order 7 Cube 1973-1984

Scope and Contents note

"Perfect Magic Cubes of Order Seven", by Bayard Wynne(photocopy, draft)

More examples and some methods of composition

Correspondents:

Barwell, Brian

Wynne, Bayard

Brooke, Patrick

Theiler, James

Box 35, folder 6

Richard Myers - Order 8 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Myers, Richard

Staib, John

Gosper, Bill

Box 35, folder 7

Magic Hypercubes 1973-1999

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Jaikumar, Ramchandran

Brooke, Patrick

Box 35, folder 8

Order 8 and Up 1976-1981

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Alspach, Brian

Benson, William

Magic Stars

Box 15, folder 16

1965, December undated

Scope and Contents note

Just the articles (see hypercube folder)

(like magic squares, but star shapes)

Magician

Box 6, folder 8

1960, August 1960-1992

Scope and Contents note

Mathemagic: Tricks based on mathematical principles

Correspondents:

Liu, Andy

Map Coloring

Box 6, folder 9

1960, September 1960

Scope and Contents note

4 color map problem

Correspondents:

Sciame, Dennis

Matches

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 21, folder 16

1969, July 1969

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Nievergelt, Jurg

Box 21, folder 17

Nievergelt's Game: Hit & Run 1967-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Nievergelt, Jurg

Proter, E.H.

Bell, Donald

Shepherd, Wilfred H.

Math. Induction

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 40, folder 5

1977, May 1977

Scope and Contents note

No article

Spots on forhead, Unfaithful wives, etc

Box 40, folder 6

Pub. Refs on Colored Hats & Forhead Numbers 1957-1977

Scope and Contents note

Notes and articles

Correspondents:

Nelson, Harry

Gale, David

Box 40, folder 7

Letters (Colored hats, Numbers on Forhead) [1 of 2] 1977

Scope and Contents note

Much good analysis

"A Conditional Probability Puzzle", by Glenn Shafer, 1981 (typescript)

Correspondents:

Brams, Steven

Mosteller, Frederick

Box 40, folder 8

Letters (Colored hats, Numbers on Forhead) [2 of 2] 1977

Scope and Contents note

More good analysis

Correspondents:

Gale, David

Isaacs, I. Martin

Math. Zoo

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 44, folder 13

1978, June 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

Many articles on math/animals

Several letters on Animals that roll

Correspondents:

Davis, Chandler

Box 44, folder 14

Deltahedra 1978

Scope and Contents note

Lots of photos of deltahedra in letter from Emerson Frost

Correspondents:

Schattschneider, Doris

Chaltin, Henrik

Stewart, Bonnie

Frost, Emerson

Box 44, folder 15

Tiling Sphere with Hexagons 1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Grunbaum, Branko

Isaacs, Rufus

Mathematical Mailman

Box 14, folder 15

1965, June 1965

Scope and Contents note

Route problems (best route and worst route)

stamps

Correspondents:

Melton, Charles

Shudde, R.H.

Heile, Frank

Matrix - 6

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 15, folder 17

1966, January 1965-1966

Scope and Contents note

Psychiatry

Correspondents:

Borgmann, Dmitri

Box 15, folder 18

Honest Numbers 1966-1990

Scope and Contents note

Many examples

Correspondents:

Lindgren, Harry

Mazes

Box 4, folder 14

1959, January 1908-1975

Scope and Contents note

plan of Hampton Court Palace maze

maze robots

Correspondents:

Gaskell, Philip

Wallace, Richard

Mechanical Puzzles

Box 5, folder 4

1959, September 1959-1963

Scope and Contents note

about Lester A. Grimes (and L.D. Whitaker)

Photos of the collection

Melody Machines

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 31, folder 8

1974, December 1974-1981

Scope and Contents note

Article not complete.

Correspondents:

Deitch, Donald

O'Beirne, Thomas

Knuth, Donald

Box 31, folder 9

Mozarr: Waltzes, Country Dances 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Various articles, descriptions and ads, including copy of Mozarts' original instructions.

Box 31, folder 10

O'Beirne 1965-1974

Scope and Contents note

Several articles by T.H. O'Beirne, on computers and music.

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 31, folder 11

Haydn-Stadler Trios 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Thomas, Gunter

Box 31, folder 12

"Buzzword" Charts 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Gross, Herbert

Minimal Sculpture

Physical Description: 9 folder(s)

Box 46, folder 4

1978, November [1 of 2] 1978-1993

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

4 photo negatives of sculptures

Lots of articles (with pictures) of sculptures & artistes

Box 46, folder 5

1978, November [2 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper articles with pictures of minimalist sculptures.

Box 46, folder 6

The Apple Cut 1982

Scope and Contents note

"Le Coupe Du Roi and its Relevance to Stereochemistry", by Frank Anet et. al. (typescript)

Correspondents:

Mislow, Kurt

Box 46, folder 7

Folded Card Paradox 1978-1985

Scope and Contents note

Hypercards.

"Hypercard Experiments", by Ben Harris (bound photocopy)

Various versions of hypercards and magic tricks based on them.

Correspondents:

Stover, Mel

Iles, Kim

Merva, Paul

Box 46, folder 8

Picasso - Paper Fold Sculpture undated

Scope and Contents note

Mostly newspaper articles on Picasso sculpture "Bust of Sylvette" & Chicago

Letter from MG to New York Times, anti-Bust.

Box 46, folder 9

Serra's NYC "Arc" undated

Scope and Contents note

Various magazine & newspaper articles

Box 46, folder 10

Carl Andre 1976-1990

Scope and Contents note

Photos of his work, articles, etc.

Book: "Carl Andre, Sculpture 1959-1977", by David Bourdon, Jaap Rietman Inc, NY 1978

Box 46, folder 11

Kenneth Snelson 1978

Scope and Contents note

Catalog: Kenneth Snelson, Skulpturen, Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1977

Photos and articles.

Correspondents:

Snelson, Kenneth

Hein, Piet

McClellan, John

Box 46, folder 12

Scilassi Polyhedra 1978-1981

Scope and Contents note

Picture of glass model of polyhedron, from David Barnhouse

[Unit fractions in Steward letter]

Correspondents:

Quimby, Shirley

Szilassi, Lajos

Guy, Richard

Stewart, Bonnie

Grunbaum, Branko

Misc. Comb. Puzzles

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 37, folder 9

1976, October undated

Scope and Contents note

Only contains answers to column.

Box 37, folder 10

Sam Loyd's Klondike Maze 1976-1987

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Smith, Maxine

Bennett, Harold

Kravitz, Sidney

Shortz, Will

Box 37, folder 11

Chinese Checker Transfers 1961-1985

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Levenspiel, Octave

Box 37, folder 12

My No-3-in-line (Minimum) Problem 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Several articles.

Correspondents:

Ainley, Stephen

Harris, John

Box 37, folder 13

Letters on No-3-in-line (Maximum) Problem 1975-1986

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Sands, Bill

Guy, Richard

Beeler, Michael

Mnemonics

Box 2, folder 9

1957, October 1925-1973

Scope and Contents note

How to remember numbers by mnemonic devices such as cuff links and red zebras (October, 1957)

"Number Dictionary", by Bruno Furst

"Zufall's Memory Trix" , Numbers 1, 2, 4, by Bernard Zufall (packet)

"The Zufall Collection", by H. Adrian Smith

Correspondents:

Rhodes, Leon

Dasgupta, S.

Low, Barbara

Spenser, D.

Moran, Carl

Modulo Arithmetic

Box 52, folder 2

1981, February 1981

Scope and Contents note

No article.

MG notes.

Correspondents:

Weeks, Dennis

Moebius Bands

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 20, folder 16

1968, December 1953-1992

Scope and Contents note

"The Afghan Border Race" (Magic Trick, preprint).

Moebius Toy designs, by Narynov: "Mystery of the Moebius Strip", "Earth & Comet Galley", "Kazakh Bottle"

Instructions for making Moebius Hat, Scarf

Correspondents:

Tuckerman, Bryant

Ransom, Tom

Grim, Bruce

Narynov, Saken

Box 20, folder 17

Moebius Strip in Fiction & Verse 1972

Scope and Contents note

Various articles and reprints, including:

"A. Botts and the Moebius Strip", by William Hazlett Upson

"Star, Bright", by Mark Clifton

"Delayed Action", by Charles V. DeVet

"The Wall of Darkness", by Arthur C. Clarke

"The Geometrics of Johnny Day", by Nelson S. Bond

Box 20, folder 18

Moebius Strip in Technology & Science 1967-2000

Scope and Contents note

Several Patents and articles.

Correspondents:

Peterson, Ivars

Engel, Douglas

Box 20, folder 19

Moebius Xmas Cards undated

Box 20, folder 20

Crossed Moebius Bands 1962-1997

Scope and Contents note

Separation: 4 Zippered material bands, to experiment with (from Jean Pedersen?)

Nagashima: long letter with diagrams, in Japanese

Correspondents:

Gordon, Leonard

Barr, Steven

Nagashima, Takahiro

Huff, William

Pedersen, Jean

Box 20, folder 21

Double, Triple, etc - Bands 1961-1977

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Mallette, Vincent

Woodbury, Steve

Munger, Elmer

Thurston, David

Box 20, folder 22

Moebius Strip in Art 1974-2000

Scope and Contents note

Also history of strips (Roman Mosaics)

From The Worm Runners Digest (magazine), reprints of articles by Tom McClellan:

"Strange Interlude" (14/1)

"Love in Sud Nim" (July, 1973, 15/1)

"Dogmatic Dog on Mobiles" (18/2)

Mohr-Mascheroni

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 21, folder 22

1969, September 1969-1976

Scope and Contents note

Geometric constructions with compass & straightedge or straightedge alone

Correspondents:

Hallerberg, Arthur

Box 21, folder 23

Mash. Problems 1963-1969

Scope and Contents note

Bisect line, the square, Phi, hexagon, center of circle

Correspondents:

Goldberg, Michael

Box 21, folder 24

6-arc solutions to diagonal point 1969

Box 21, folder 25

Toothpick Const's (Dawson) 1969-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Charosh, Mannis

Johnson, Crockett

Monkey and Coconuts

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 3, folder 6

1958, April 1951-1993

Scope and Contents note

"Coconuts", by David Singmaster (history of the problem. Unpublished?)

Correspondents:

Kirchner, Roger

Shaw, A.

Healey, Tom

Weaver, Warren

Wright, Alfred

Danskin, John

Wilson, J.Walter

Anning, Norman

Whitehead, J.H.C.

Dirac, P.A.M.

Browne, Owens Hand

Box 3, folder 7

Monkey and Coconuts [2 of 2] 1958-1989

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Borgeson, Carl

Miller, Donald

Glicksman, Abraham

Detwiler, V.

Gibson, Robert

Kazarinoff, Nicholas

Krasner, Sol

Whitlock, Bill

Weaver, Warren (with Xerox of Lewis Carroll letter)

Mr. Apollinax

Box 7, folder 4

1961, May 1961-1965

Scope and Contents note

Several math hoaxes: 4-color counterexample, flaw in relativity, Fermat's last theorem proved, prediction and other paradoxes.

Correspondents:

Good, Jack

My Steiner Problem

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 54, folder 1

1986, June 1985-1996

Scope and Contents note

No article.

MG notes.

Correspondents:

Hwang, Frank

Piel, Jonathan

Liu, Andy

Graham, Ron

Chung, Fan

Box 54, folder 2

Isometric Steiner Trees undated

Scope and Contents note

One small article on Steiner Minimal Trees on Chinese Checkerboards, by Hwang and Du.

Box 54, folder 3

Extensions By Readers 1986

Scope and Contents note

3-D extensions (cubes, tori, Klein's bottles, etc.)

Correspondents:

Letaw, John

Ellis, Michael

Pechenick, Kay

Oblak, Frank

Gascoigne, Stuart

Giuseppe, Argento

Box 54, folder 4

Improvements on 10 & 22 Squares 1986

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Carlson, Eric

Selfridge, Oliver

Ashenfelter, Robert

Wainwright, Robert

Putney, Charles

Hubbard, A.C.

Box 54, folder 5

Steiner Minimum Trees [1 of 2] 1986

Scope and Contents note

Varius articles (some quite long.)

Correspondents:

Haug, Eberhard

Box 54, folder 6

Steiner Minimum Trees [2 of 2] 1962

Scope and Contents note

Problem for triangles.

Cauchy's apparatus (use of weights to solve.)

Soap film.

Algorithm from Rufas Isaacs.

Correspondents:

Van der Poel, Willam

Box 54, folder 7

Rectilinear Steiner Trees undated

Scope and Contents note

3 articles & some references.

Napiers Abacus

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 26, folder 8

1973, April 1969-1973

Scope and Contents note

Much more on chessboard computer from Craige Schensted

Correspondents:

Schensted, Craige

Box 26, folder 9

Negative-Base Systems 1968-1974

Scope and Contents note

"The Acid Test", by John Staib (typescript) on base-10

Correspondents:

Strung, John

Staib, John

Box 26, folder 10

DeRegt Papers on Negative-base Notation [1 of 2] 1968-1973

Scope and Contents note

Maurits P. de Regt - several papers and a patent

Box 26, folder 11

DeRegt Papers on Negative-base Notation [1 of 2] 1968-1973

Scope and Contents note

Continuation

Box 26, folder 12

Fibanacci Notation 1973-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Keller, Tim

Napiers Bones

Box 26, folder 7

1973, March 1972-1973

Scope and Contents note

Ron Edward's Lightning Cal. Trick

Abaco Naperiano Perfeccionado

Correspondents:

Kierstead, Friend

Burkhart, William

Quintana, Luis Benito

Negative Numbers

Box 40, folder 9

1977, June 1977-1990

Scope and Contents note

No article

"Negative Membership", by Wayne Blizard, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 31/3, 1990 (reprint)

"A Theory of Shadows", by Wayne Blizard, 1989 (reprint)

Many articles & teaching suggestions for negative numbers

New Games (Cram, Crosscram, Bynum, Quadraphage)

Physical Description: 10 folder(s)

Box 28, folder 9

1974, February 19851998

Scope and Contents note

No article

Box 28, folder 10

Cram 1958-1966

Scope and Contents note

Analysis of "Domino game", possibly by Conway, but no signature.

Correspondents:

Mott-Smith, Geoffrey

Box 28, folder 11

Cross-Cram 1973-1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Andersson, Goran

Chandra, Ashok

Box 28, folder 12

1xN Cram 1974-1976

Scope and Contents note

"Strategies in Simple Cases of Cram", by Magnus Tideman (photocopy): Analyzes 5x5, nx1 and others

"Some Remarks on Nim-like Games", by Sin Hitotumatu, preprint

Conway notes on 1xM Cram

Correspondents:

Hitotumatu, Sin

Banerji, Ranan

Weber, Robert

Anick, David

Silverman, David

Charosh, Mannis

Klein-Buimovici, Dorian

Singmaster, David

Henon, Michel

Box 28, folder 13

Bynum's Version of Tactix 1972-1975

Scope and Contents note

Original description of Bynum's Game (Unit Elimination), by Jim Bynum

Analysis by Conway, Bynum

Correspondents:

Bynum, Jim

Conway, John

Box 28, folder 14

Quadraphage (Square-Eater) 1970-1974

Scope and Contents note

"Quadraphag, Chessgo, Dukego and Kinggo", by Elwyn Berlekamp (typescript)

Various analyses; note by Don Knuth (on MG notes)

Correspondents:

Berlekamp, Elwyn

Golomb, Solomon

Charosh, Mannis

Silverman, David

Haubrich, Joseph

Box 28, folder 15

Trapping Rook, B's, & Q 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Chandra, Ashok

Shapiro, Eli

Box 28, folder 16

Trapping Knight with 3 Quads 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Adams, Edward N.

Box 28, folder 17

Kt. With 2 Quads 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Butters, Jerry

Adams, Edward N.

Box 28, folder 18

Blass & Conway - Angels, Pope, Fool, etc 1974

Scope and Contents note

Notes from Conway, Blass

Newcomb's Paradox

Box 27, folder 7

1973, July undated

Scope and Contents note

Empty - refers to March, 1974 column.

Nim

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 3, folder 2

1958, February 1958-1974

Scope and Contents note

"How to Play Dr. Nim" (pamphlet)

Origin of name

Correspondents:

Distler, Dan

Hart, M.

Kunik, I. Jordan (with patent)

Box 3, folder 3

Nim Machines 1958-1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Chapman, Seville

Potter, Jack

Monti, A.

Box 3, folder 4

Tac Tix (NIMBI) 1958-1980

Scope and Contents note

Nimbi, by Piet Hein (pamphlet)

Correspondents:

Abreu, Ruben

Hinrichs, Ralph

Trowbridge, James

Buckley, Michael

Beeler, Michael

Wolfberg, Michael

Mott-Smith, Geoffrey

Berg, Monroe

Fraenkel, Aviezri

Non-Euclidean Geometry

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 53, folder 1

1981, October 1981

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Coxeter corrections to column.

MG notes.

Some discussion of consistency of elementry geometry, and paper by Tarski on it.

Correspondents:

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Miller, Arthur I.

Box 53, folder 2

Poincare & Whitehead 1971

Scope and Contents note

Details of Whitehead's thoughts on relativety, by Lowe.

MG notes on Poncare.

"Whitehead's Philosophy of Science", by Adolf Grunbaum, on Whitehead vs Einstein on Relativity (typescript.)

Correspondents:

Lowe, Victor

Box 53, folder 3

References on Non-Euclidean Geometry 1990-1998

Scope and Contents note

Many articles, plus MG list (of references) and some reviews.

Box 53, folder 4

Parallel Postulate (Playfair) and False Proofs 1951-1952

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

Many articles & excerpts.

Correspondents:

Callahan, J.J.

Box 53, folder 5

Models of Hyperbolic Plane (Escher III) undated

Non-Transitive Paradoxes

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 30, folder 16

1974, October [1 of 2] 1970-1978

Scope and Contents note

No article

Magic Tricks: Little Bingo, Chip Flip, the Right Bettor (from Karl Fulves)

The Upstream Game (from A.K. Austin)

Bar Racudda (Bob Farmer)

Jan-Ken-Pon Chips (Max Maven) (in separate folder)

"A Gaming Wheel Based on Cyclic Advantage", by Walter Funkenbusch (typescript)

Correspondents:

Stover, Mel

Box 30, folder 17

Non-Transitive Paradoxes [2 of 2] 1991

Scope and Contents note

Partial manuscript on Nontransitive games, by Karl Fulves

Correspondents:

Fulves, Karl

Box 30, folder 18

Voting Paradoxes [1 of 2] 1974

Scope and Contents note

various articles

Correspondents:

Fishburn, Peter

Usiskin, Zalman

Box 30, folder 19

Voting Paradoxes [2 of 2] 1970-1975

Scope and Contents note

"What it Takes to Avoid Arrow's Paradox", by Howard Margolis (typescript)

"A Rational Voting Procedure", by Kenneth Norton (typescript)

Correspondents:

Klahr, David

Smith, Tony

Blyth, Colin

Diaconis, Persi

Rudkin, Arthur

Box 31, folder 1

Non-T. Triplets [1 of 2] 1971-1977

Scope and Contents note

(Bagley letter includes photocopy of original article)

Correspondents:

Varga, Tamas

Conway, John

Wolk, Barry

Nelson, Harry

Silverman, David

Bagley, Desmond

Box 31, folder 2

Non-t. Triplets [2 of 2] 1974-1977

Scope and Contents note

Analysis of probabilities in binary strings, by Stanley Collings

Correspondents:

Wendel, J.G.

Knuth, Donald

Collings, Stanley

Odlyzko, Andrew

Connolly, Michael

Hurst, Bryce

Nothing (& Conway's No's)

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 32, folder 1

1975, February 1975-1998

Scope and Contents note

No article

Correspondents:

Hein, Piet

Kaplan, Bob

Box 32, folder 2

Null and zero (and the Null-graph) 1975

Scope and Contents note

"Is theNull-Graph a Pointless Concept?", by Frank Harary & Ronald Read (photocopy)

Correspondents:

Mosteller, Frederick

Nozick

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 29, folder 1

1974, March 1973

Scope and Contents note

On Newcomb's Paradox

Correspondance between MG and Nozick for column on Reflections on Newcomb's Problem

Correspondents:

Nozick, Robert

Box 29, folder 2

Other Refs on Newcomb [1 of 2] 1974-1986

Scope and Contents note

Various articles

"Newcomb's Problem and the Dominance Principle", by Paul Snow (typescript)

"Newcomb's Paradox", by Jerry Malom (typescript)

Correspondents:

Asimov, Isaac

Hohman, William

Richter, Reed

Box 29, folder 3

Other Refs on Newcomb [2 of 2] 1998

Scope and Contents note

"A Proof That "Newcomb's Paradox" is not a Genuine Paradox", by Dugald Keith (typescript)

"Newcomb Without Tears: The Role of Causal Factors in Rational Decision", by Brian Skyrms (typescript)

"The Predictor Versus the Rational Chooser: A Solution to Newcomb's Problem", by Dean Clark (typescript)

Correspondents:

Nozick, Robert

Langan, Chris

Kruskal, Martin

Newcomb, William

Sorensen, Roy

Box 29, folder 4

Bar Hillel 1974

Scope and Contents note

"Newcomb's Paradox Revisited", by Maya Bar-Hillel & Avishai Margolit (offprint, Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 23(1972) 295-304

Correspondents:

Bar-Hillel, Maya

Box 29, folder 5

Schlessinger's Article, & Papers On It 1974

Box 29, folder 6

Bram's Paper 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

"Newcomb's Problem and Prisoners Dilemma"

Also: Curriculum Vita (of Brams)

Correspondents:

Brams, Steven

Box 29, folder 7

Papers by Eells [1 of 2] 1985

Scope and Contents note

Offprints & typescripts, 1984-1985

Box 29, folder 8

Papers by Eells [2 of 2] 1985

Scope and Contents note

1985 paper

Op Art

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 14, folder 16

1965, July [1 of 2] 1965-1966

Scope and Contents note

mostly many examples

Box 14, folder 17

Op Art [2 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

Newsprint articles

Box 14, folder 18

The 4 Bugs 1965

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Good, I.J.

McCall, Storrs

Optical Illusions

Box 22, folder 23

1970, May 1970

Origami

Box 5, folder 2

1959, July 1959-1961

Oulipu - Word Play

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 39, folder 8

1977, February 1976-1988

Scope and Contents note

(Leight also includes analysis of 2-pile Nim game)

Correspondents:

Gummere, John

McClennan, John

Eckler, Ross

Leight, Walter

Box 39, folder 9

From Readers (Oulipu) 1977

Scope and Contents note

Lots of anagrams, poems, and other word play.

Box 39, folder 10

Italo Calvino undated

Scope and Contents note

Articles and book revies about Calvino

Box 39, folder 11

Harry Mathews [1 of 2] 1976-1982

Scope and Contents note

Some of his work

"Oulipian" poems

("Selected Declarations of Dependence" in next folder)

Mathews Algorithm (in French) (typescript)

Snowball poem

Mathews Algorithm (in English, translation by HM) (typescript)

Correspondents:

Mathews, Harry

Box 39, folder 12

Harry Mathews [2 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

"Selected Declarations of Dependence", by Harry Mathews ("A Novel" crossed out), illustrated by Alex Katz (newsprint)

Packing of Squares

Physical Description: 10 folder(s)

Box 49, folder 5

1979, October 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Articles and a few letters

Correspondents:

Krieger, Michael

Box 49, folder 6

Returned by Friedman [1 of 2] 1979-1997

Scope and Contents note

(Most of these files were lent to Friedman, and returned in a batch.)

Many letters and some articles on square packing.

"Packing Unit Squares in Squares: A Survey and New Results", by Erich Friedman (typescript) (mid-'90's)

Correspondents:

Friedman, Erich

Potjewyd, John

Konopasek, Milos

Engler, Paul

Crowther, Joseph

Ammann, Robert

Stoll, Douglas

Graham, Ron

Stromquist, Walter

Trump, Walter

Box 49, folder 7

Returned by Friedman [2 of 2] 1978-1984

Scope and Contents note

3 issues of "Ronden", magazine, with square packing problem: 4/80, 9/80, 12/80

Correspondents:

Gustafsson, Mats

Cottingham, Charles

Hamalainen, Pertti

Gobel, Fritz

Box 49, folder 8

Tiling Plane (Consecutive Squares) 1972-1986

Scope and Contents note

Golomb's Problem (notes)

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Tutte, W.T.

Penrose, Roger

Box 49, folder 9

Graham & Erdos undated

Scope and Contents note

Mostly articles.

Box 49, folder 10

Wainwright's Square Pack Problem 1981-1992

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Wainwright, Robert

Box 49, folder 11

Unit Squares Into Squares undated

Scope and Contents note

List of conjectured values of S(N)

Correspondents:

Friedman, Erich

Box 49, folder 12

The 70x70 Problem 1966-1980

Scope and Contents note

Also on a torus.

"The Tesselator", by Zoltan Perjes (typescript) 1987: Algorithm for tiling with unequal squares.

Correspondents:

Blyth, Colin

Britton, Dick

Taylor, James

Conway, John

Shepherd, Wilfred

Reid, Robert

Box 49, folder 13

Tiling Space With Distinct Cubes 1991

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Wainwright, Robert

Graham, Ron

Gordon, Basil

Box 49, folder 14

Tiling Space With Distinct Cubes - No 2 Face-to-Face undated

Scope and Contents note

Just article by S. Stein

Palindromes

Box 22, folder 28

1970, August undated

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper clippings.

Paper Cutting

Box 6, folder 6

1960, June 1960-1998

Scope and Contents note

also folding

Folding the black cube (with models)

Paper Folds (Neale)

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 23, folder 17

1971, May 1971

Scope and Contents note

Various magic tricks & puzzles by Bob Neale: Odd & Even Flex; Sheep & Goats.

Flexing model

Correspondents:

Neale, Robert

Swinford, Paul

Box 23, folder 18

1xN (Linear Strip) [1 of 2] 1961-1981

Scope and Contents note

Articles on Map & Stamp Folding, by Lunnon, Koehler

Box 23, folder 19

1xN (Linear Strip) [2 of 2] 1966-1982

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Bohigian, Haig

Knuth, Donald

Kaplan, Saul

Wells, Mark

Zbikowski, Mark

Box 23, folder 20

3x3 Map 1967-1971

Scope and Contents note

Beelzebub puzzle

Correspondents:

Neale, Robert

Box 23, folder 21

Rectangles 1970-1971

Scope and Contents note

Articles, MG notes

Correspondents:

Russell, Mike

Parabola

Box 52, folder 13

1981, August 1969-1982

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Artwork from article.

MG notes.

Untitled paper, by Sam Matlin, on a geometric transformation relating parabolas and triangles, and generalized conics (typescript)

Various articles on the parabola.

Correspondents:

Matlin, Sam

Graham, Ron

Paradox of the Unexpected Examination

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 10, folder 1

1963, March [1 of 2] 1948-1981

Scope and Contents note

Various articles, including most of the ones from Mind, with comments by Gardner

Quines letters include historyof the problem

Correspondents:

Quine, W.V.

Meltzer, Bernard

Schoenberg, Judith

Mendelson, Elliott

Norwood, Rick (Prisoner's Card Game)

Box 10, folder 2

Paradox of the Unexpected Examination [2 of 2] 1979-2000

Scope and Contents note

More articles.

Correspondents:

Heldring, Otto

Box 38, folder 6

Quasi-Crystals [3 of 3] 1986-1999

Scope and Contents note

More articles.

Box 38, folder 7

Conway's Non-Periodic 3D Tile (Convex) 1993

Scope and Contents note

The model framework on file-folder paper (to be cut out), and a short article from Focus.

Box 38, folder 8

Nori's Algorithm 1987

Scope and Contents note

"A Very Simple Algorithm That Generates an Infinite Sequence of Aperiodic Patterns", by Marco Ronchetti and Franco Nori ["Just a Preliminary and Incomplete Draft"] (typescript), along with around 30 examples.

Correspondents:

Nori, Franco

Box 38, folder 9

de Bruijn Material [1 of 2] 1980-1982

Scope and Contents note

2 papers (typescript) by de Bruijn

Correspondents:

De Bruijn, N.G.

Box 38, folder 10

de Bruijn Material [2 of 2] undated

Scope and Contents note

More de Bruijn papers.

Bibliography of de Bruijn papers on Penrose patterns.

Box 38, folder 11

Ammann's Tiles 1969-1996

Scope and Contents note

Many hand-drawn aperiodic examples.

Some proofs, in letters

Correspondents:

Ammann, Robert

Penrose, Roger

Grunbaum, Branko

Box 38, folder 12

Originals of duplicated pages undated

Scope and Contents note

From folder 38/11

Box 38, folder 13

Conway Material 1975-1980

Scope and Contents note

Notes on Conway lecture on the tiles, Bell Labs, 1980.

Lots of notes (and corrections) about the tiles.

Slides from a Conway lecture

Correspondents:

Guy, Richard (for J.H.C.)

Conway, John

Knuth, Donald

Box 38, folder 14

Originals of duplicated pages undated

Scope and Contents note

From folder 38/13

Box 38, folder 15

Forcing Theory 1977

Scope and Contents note

MG report to Penrose on what Conway has been doing with Penrose tiles, partly on how Ammann bars "force" other infinite sets.

Correspondents:

Penrose, Roger

Box 38, folder 16

Non-Periodic Tiling 1970-1981

Scope and Contents note

Spiral and other non-periodic (but not aperiodic) tilings.

Correspondents:

Goldberg, Michael

Kershner, R.

Knuth, Donald

Wallace, John

Schattschneider, Doris

Hein, Piet

Box 38, folder 17

3-Space Non-Periodic Tilings 1976-1989

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Ammann, Robert

Kim, Scott

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Penrose, Roger

Box 38, folder 18

Ellen Perstein 1999-2001

Scope and Contents note

"Tilings with Penrose Rhomb Clusters", by Ellen Perstein (color computer output), plus discussion.

Correspondents:

Perstein, Ellen

Schattschneider, Doris

Box 39, folder 1

Wnag Dominoes 1965-1977

Scope and Contents note

Articles & letters on Wang tiles.

"Computers, Games, and Logic", by Hao Wang (typescript)

Correspondents:

Hart, Tim

Robinson, Raphael

Box 39, folder 2

Robinson - on th ePenrose Tiles 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Articles (& letters) on Penrose tiles

"Comments on the Penrose Tiles - September 1975", by Raphael M. Robinson (typescript)

Correspondents:

Robinson, Raphael

Box 39, folder 3

Eric Rogener undated

Scope and Contents note

Some kite and dart tilings

Box 39, folder 4

Harborth & P. Hein 1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Harborth, Heiko

Schattschneider, Doris

Box 39, folder 5

Pauling's Criticisms undated

Scope and Contents note

About quasicrystals

Box 39, folder 6

Theo Bense (New Zealand) 1991-1992

Scope and Contents note

Various 3-D models based on Penrose tiling, with pictures & description. Also article in Dutch.

Correspondents:

Bense, Theo

Box 39, folder 7

Miyazaki 1978

Scope and Contents note

"On Some Periodical and Non-Periodical Honeycombs", by Koji Miyazaki, 1977 (booklet, with many laid-in photos. Also mentions Golden Polytopes and Golden Isozonohedra.)

Correspondents:

Miyazaki, Koji

Pentomino Games

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 15, folder 5

1965, October 1965-1994

Scope and Contents note

"The Game of Pentominoes: A First Player Win", by Hilarie K. Orman, 1994 (typescript)

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Box 15, folder 6

De Bono's L-Game 1974-1984

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Dewdney, A.K.

Penszko, Marek

Box 15, folder 7

Rectification Problem (form rectangles) 1964-1989

Scope and Contents note

"Rectifiable Polyominoes", by "Group Four", VCP (reproduction)

"Polyominoes Which Tile Rectangles", by Solomon Golomb (typescript)

Correspondents:

Harris, John

O'Beirne, Thomas

Klarner, David

Spira, Robert

Pentominoes

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 6, folder 18

1960, November 1960-1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Box 6, folder 19

Domino's and Fault-Free Rectangles 1960-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Perfect No's

Box 20, folder 1

1968, March 1968

Scope and Contents note

Just article.

Other folders: Weird numbers, number problems

Phi

Box 5, folder 3

1959, August 1959

Scope and Contents note

(just the article)

Pi

Box 6, folder 7

1960, July 1960-1993

Scope and Contents note

"The Number Pi", by Edmund Kelly

Pierce

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 45, folder 1

1978, July 1978

Scope and Contents note

Charles Sanders Pierce

Incomplete article.

Correspondents:

Eisele, Carolyn

Knuth, Donald

Jones, Charles

Box 45, folder 2

Pierce's 1, 2, & 3rd ness 1978

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

Correspondents:

Hartshorne, Charles

Fisch, Max

Box 45, folder 3

Burks, on Pierce 1976

Scope and Contents note

Papers (typescript) by Arthur Burks

Correspondents:

Burks, Arthur

Box 45, folder 4

Chas. Pierce - Misc. Papers on undated

Box 45, folder 5

Pierce's Card Trick 1965-1985

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Anderson, Sabra

Eisemann, Kurt

Halmos, Paul

Pigeon-Hole Principle

Box 51, folder 10

1980, August 1980

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article (article written by Ross Honsberger)

Dewdney SA article on Honsberger

Correspondents:

Rebman, Ken

Platonic Solids

Box 4, folder 13

1958, December 1958-1962

Scope and Contents note

Resistance Cube Puzzle

Correspondents:

Wetter, Arthur

Parkenson, R.A.

Eklund, Karl

Pocket Calculator

Box 37, folder 2

1976, July 1970-1992

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

DeLong, Howard

Knuth, Donald

Hitotumatu, Sin

McPhee, Mary Jo

Jud, Wallace

Point-Set Coverings of Spheres

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 27, folder 10

Point-Set Coverings of Spheres (Conway, Simmons) [2 of 2] 1973

Scope and Contents note

Lots of correspondence & articles from/with Simmons

Correspondents:

Simmons, Gustavus

Box 27, folder 9

1973, September [1 of 2] 1973-1985

Scope and Contents note

No article (1 page photocopy)

Correspondents:

Croft, H.

Angstrom, Knut

Alma, G.G.P.

Golomb, Solomon

Simmons, Gustavus

Polycubes (& Soma II)

Box 25, folder 16

1972, September undated

Scope and Contents note

Just article (incomplete)

(includes Slither)

Polyominoes

Box 2, folder 17

1957, December 1957

Scope and Contents note

More about complex dominoes (December, 1957)

References a separate box of letters

Primes

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 12, folder 13

1964, March 1964

Scope and Contents note

Column

Box 12, folder 14

Ulam's Spiral 1964-1966, 2000

Scope and Contents note

"A Visual Display of Some Properties of the Distribution of Primes", by M.L.Stein, S.M. Ulam, M.B.Wells (typescript of article)

Correspondents:

Ducker, W.L.

Ulam, Stanislav

Jones, Florence

Amick, Owen

Clark, Arthur C.

Box 12, folder 15

Correspondence on the Spiral Pattern [1 of 2] 1964-1966

Scope and Contents note

Are the pictures wrong?

Hexagonal plot

Rows of squares

"The Structure of the Prive Number", by Wang Chia-chu (photocopy of typescript)

Correspondents:

Richter, Charles

Nelson, W.L.

Stuart, James

Baumgant, Bruce

Eisenberg, Frank

Phelan, Stephen

Ulam, Stanislav

Vanderpool, Donald

Box 12, folder 16

Correspondence on the Spiral Pattern [2 of 2] 1985-1987

Scope and Contents note

3 Reports from Naval Surface Weapons Center, by R. S. Sery:

"A New Method for Finding Prime-Rich Equations of the Type I=x^2-x+c" (1986)

"Prime-Rich Row Equations of the "Special" Array" (1987)

"Relationships Between Prime-Rich Euler Type Equations and a Triangular Array of the Odd Integers" (1985)

Box 12, folder 17

Triangular Grids [1 of 2] 1932-1964

Scope and Contents note

"A Triangular Arrangement of Numbers Leading to the Graphical Determination of Euler Sequences", by L.M.Klauber (1932) (Thermofax of typescript)

"Never Prime" Seive, & "Prime Likely" Sieve (triangular), by Klauber

Correspondents:

Klauber, L.

Box 12, folder 18

Triangular Grids [2 of 2] 1963-1964

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Brooks, Rodney

Box 12, folder 19

Hexagonal Grids` 1964-1987

Prismatic Rings

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 45, folder 6

1978, August 1976-1990

Scope and Contents note

Slides from Ikuo Sakurai, photos from Quimby

Correspondents:

McAdams, H.T.

Sequin, Carlo

Peavey, L.H.

Quimby, Shirley

Evans, Pierce

Draper, S.W.

Ferguson, Helaman

Engel, Douglas

Box 45, folder 7

Early Letters on 1964-1978

Box 45, folder 8

Scott Kim on 1976-1978

Probability II

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 5, folder 5

1959, October 1959, 1991

Box 5, folder 6

Broken Stick 1959-1990

Scope and Contents note

analysis of "at random"

Correspondents:

Kling, Frederick, John Ross, Norman Cliff

Redheffer, Ray

Adams, Edward N.

James, Robert

Lynch, Gerald

Bach, G. and R. Sharp

Knalf, David

Geschwind, Norman

Box 5, folder 7

Random Chord (Bertrand's Problem) 1939-2002

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Goldman, Thomas

Lydiard, J.M.

Jaray, R.J.

Bauer, Richard

MacQueen, J.T.

Box 5, folder 8

Paradox of 2nd Child 1959-1992

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

McVey, Joseph

Kemeny, John

Rosenstock, Herbert

Heironimus, J.P.

Baron, Julius

Smith, Howard

Collier, J.H.

Lincoln, Alexander

Olson, Roger

Probability Paradoxes

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 1, folder 13

1957, April 1957

Scope and Contents note

"Paradoxes dealing with birthdays, playing cards, coins, crows and red-haired typists"

Box 1, folder 14

Hempel's Paradox 1968

Scope and Contents note

MG card model of Hempel's paradox (undated)

Box 1, folder 15

Letters on Hempel's Paradox 1957-1988

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Arabadjis, Gus

Smith, Preston

MacIver, Donald

Hobson, Paul

Chodosch, Robert

Alchian, Armen

Barnhart, E. Paul

Isen, Werner

Geppert, Donovan

"Steve"

Smith, Dan

Colman, Morris

Michie, Donald

Porte, Jean

Meyer, Stuart

Box 1, folder 16

Papers and references on Hempel's Paradox [1 of 2] 1946-1985

Scope and Contents note

"The Priggish Principles", I.F. Good

Correspondents:

Hacking, Ian

Box 1, folder 17

Papers and references on Hempel's Paradox [2 of 2] 1957-1997

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Swinburne, Richard

Michie, Donald

Hempel, Carl

Stove, David

Shotwell, David

Box 23, folder 10

1970, December 1969-1971

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Various discussions of paradoxes

Box 23, folder 11

Non-Transitive Dice [1 of 2] 1970-2000

Scope and Contents note

Several articles.

"Non-Transitive Dominance Relations Among Dreidels", by R. Tenney & Caxton Easten (typescript)

Correspondents:

Stover, Mel

Rosen, Joe

Efron, Bradley

Hein, Piet

Thorp, Edward

Box 23, folder 12

Non-Transitive Dice [2 of 2] 1975

Scope and Contents note

"Latest Last Entry Time and Proper Strategic Choice from Among a Certain Set of Options having Non-Transitive Advantages", by W.W. Fukenbusch, Dept. of Math, Michigan Tech. U., 1974 (booklet)

Correspondents:

Funkenbusch, W.

Problems

Physical Description: 10 folder(s)

Box 25, folder 1

1972, April 1967-1972

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Box 25, folder 2

Dudney's Digit Problem 1972

Scope and Contents note

Many computer solutions of problem #7

Box 25, folder 3

Variants - using Digits 1972

Scope and Contents note

Of problem #7, multiplying numbers using the 9 digits, different bases, addition, etc.

Correspondents:

Card, L.E.

Crocker, Guy

Box 25, folder 4

10-Digit Variant 1972

Scope and Contents note

Variants of #7, but multipying using 10 digits (0-9)

Box 25, folder 5

Simmon's Band and Cord Variant, etc 1972

Scope and Contents note

Variants of #1, folding strip with ends attached (also folding cards.)

Box 25, folder 6

Frieze Patterns (Coxeter & Conway) 1971-1972

Scope and Contents note

Various reprints & preprints of articles on Frieze patterns.

Conway notes (June, 1972) on Frieze patterns, also "unimpartial hackenbush"

"The Geometry of Frieze Patterns", by D. Broline & D.W. Crowe (typescript)

Correspondents:

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Conway, John

Box 49, folder 18

1979, December 1977-1996

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article.

Corrections to several problems.

Correspondents:

Boas, R.P.h

Schwartz, Benjamin

Penny, Walter

Box 49, folder 19

The "Impossible" Number Problem [1 of 2] 1979

Scope and Contents note

Lots of solution procedures, reports on statement error (sum cannot be limited to 20), etc.

Correspondents:

Dijkstra, Edsger

Berlekamp, Elwyn

Hull, Thomas

Stover, Mel

McCarthy, Don

Box 49, folder 20

The "Impossible" Number Problem [2 of 2] 1979-1993

Scope and Contents note

"The Impossible Problem", by Lee Sallows (typescript)

Correspondents:

Agin, Gerald

Lew, John

Sallows, Lee

Box 49, folder 21

Taylor's Linked Toruses 1979-1980

Scope and Contents note

Various alternative diagrams of solutions (and variations)

Photos of a solution in clay & brass ring (by Fieux).

Correspondents:

Francis, George

Taylor, Herbert

Problems - 11

Physical Description: 9 folder(s)

Box 11, folder 13

1963, November 1963

Scope and Contents note

Lohr, Lenox

Box 11, folder 14

Bracing a Square 1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Robinson, Raphael

Box 11, folder 15

23-Rods 1963

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Andersen, Eric

Box 11, folder 16

Rigidifying Higher Polygons 1999

Scope and Contents note

Bracing a pentagon & hinged dissection

Correspondents:

Frederickson, Greg

Box 11, folder 17

3-D Mazes 1962-1964

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Box 11, folder 18

Word Squares 1963-1965

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Borgmann, Dmitri

Box 11, folder 19

Clock Problem 1963-1964

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Klarner, David

Box 11, folder 20

Schuh's Problem 1963

Box 11, folder 21

Proofs of Max. Move Chess Problem 1963

Problems - 13

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 15, folder 8

1965, November 1964-1965

Scope and Contents note

Word and number problems

Article

Source of #6

Comment on key & ring

Box 15, folder 9

Sam Loyd's toothpick Problem 1965

Scope and Contents note

Various general solutions and proofs

Correspondents:

Brown, J.C.

Ungar, Andrew

Beach, Breat

Allen, D.J.

Shepherd, W.A.

Dickson, John

Brewster, George

Bienenfeld, David

Box 15, folder 10

Rectangle-Free Squares 1965-1966

Scope and Contents note

also Formulas for rectangle-free problem on squares

Correspondents:

Hodgart, Mathew

Harris, John

Bienenfeld, David

Knowlton, William

Box 15, folder 11

Lady in Lake 1965-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Max, Nelson

Perry, R.L.

Box 15, folder 12

Glass-Test Goof 1964-1965

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Barr, Steven

Hall, David

Box 15, folder 13

The Anagram Dictionary 1964-1966

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Temperley, Nicholas

Shepherd, Wilfred H.

Borgmann, Dmitri

Box 15, folder 14

Barr's Sets of Cocircular points 1965

Box 15, folder 15

Rolling Cube Tours 1964-1997

Scope and Contents note

Gough describes games: Relate, Egyptian Game

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Gough, John

Problems with Game Material

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 43, folder 10

1978, February 1972-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Box 43, folder 11

Sicherman Dice 1977-1979

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hitotumatu, Sin

Gallian, Joseph

Broline, Duane

Sicherman, George

Knuth, Donald

Box 43, folder 12

The Complex Polytope 1977-1992

Scope and Contents note

Karl Scherer's proof of square problem: 8 is minimum no. of equal squares with each vertex shared

Correspondents:

Youngs, Dale

Scheerer, Karl

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Mycielski, Jan

Kim, Scott

Box 43, folder 13

27 Dice Problem 1978

Scope and Contents note

Some nice analysis

Correspondents:

Funkenbusch, W.

Jackman, Kenneth

Lipscomp, Kenneth

Vanderschel, David

Lopow, Leonard

Box 43, folder 14

Conway's Checker Jump 1979, 1997

Scope and Contents note

Only 2 articles on problem and variations

Box 43, folder 15

Kruskal Kount 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Various discussions of presentation

Correspondents:

Endfield, Cy

Kruskal, Martin

Lerman, Benjamin

Marlo, Edward

Hudson, Charles

Fulves, Karl

Pythagorean Theorem

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 13, folder 13

1964, October 1958-1972 (1998)

Scope and Contents note

Also Pythagorean triangles

Proofs, generalizations

Correspondents:

Beyer, William

Trigg, Charles

Loomis, E.G.

Box 13, folder 14

Equiareal PP Triangles 1960

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Whitlock, Bill

Box 13, folder 15

Pythagorean Triples 1960-1995

Scope and Contents note

"The Pythagorean Numbers in Vector Problems", by Leo Lavatelli (typescript)

Correspondents:

Umansky, Harlan

Rathbun, Randall

Box 13, folder 16

Matrix' Prediction 1964

Scope and Contents note

(tail end of October article, Pythagorean Theorem)

Notes on how he (MG) did it, with other possibilities

Quicky Problems

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 23, folder 23

1971, July 1971

Box 23, folder 24

Pentagon Viewing Problem 1971

Scope and Contents note

Lots of claims of falsity

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Box 23, folder 25

The 24 Touching Cubes 1971

Scope and Contents note

Also details of 22 cube solution; also hypercube solutions

Correspondents:

Fischer, Michael

Holmes, Robert

Fawcett, Kenneth

Riley, John

Ogilvy, Stan

Ramsey Theory

Physical Description: 15 folder(s)

Box 42, folder 6

1977, November 1977-1989

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Harary, Frank

Ulam, Stanislav

Box 42, folder 7

Ramesy Theory (Refs) 1979-1996

Scope and Contents note

Notes by MG

Various papers, reviews, etc

Long survey article (typescript) by Stefan Burr, nd (about 1975)

Correspondents:

Harary, Frank

Box 42, folder 8

Papers by Fan Chung 1982-1988

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Chung, Fan

Box 42, folder 9

R(4,5)=25 (Ann Landers) 1993

Scope and Contents note

Ann Landers mention of Ramsey(4,5) being 25, with letter from MG in response

Box 42, folder 10

Readers - Corrections & New Material 1977

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Harary, Frank

Basin, Lewis

Schwenk, Allen

Lorden, Gary

Box 42, folder 11

Forced Chromatic Triangles in Graphs (& Blue-empty ones) 1962

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Schwenk, Allen

Jenks, Robert

Box 42, folder 12

Ramsey No's for Cycles (Polygons) undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes and 2 article reprints

Box 42, folder 13

Graham's Hypercube Problem undated

Scope and Contents note

Knuth article on large numbers, but *no Graham!*

Box 42, folder 14

Multiple Disjoint Triangles undated

Box 42, folder 15

Ramsey No's for Stars undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes, 2 articles (by Burr & others)

Box 42, folder 16

Spoked Wheels undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Box 42, folder 17

R(3,3,...) Problems 1977

Scope and Contents note

MG notes & articles by Folkman

Correspondents:

Fletcher, John

Box 42, folder 18

Erdos-Graham Problem 1977

Scope and Contents note

MG notes & some articles

Correspondents:

Schwenk, Allen

Box 42, folder 19

Euclidean Ramsey Theory undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

"Euclidean Ramsey Theorems", I, II, III, by Erdos, Graham et. al. (photocopy)

Box 42, folder 20

Related Problems (Ramsey Type) 1978

Scope and Contents note

Lots of articles

Correspondents:

Shader, Leslie

Random Numbers

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 20, folder 7

1968, July 1968

Scope and Contents note

Fink letter on Borges.

Correspondents:

Fink, Federico

Box 20, folder 8

Random Number Generators 1968

Scope and Contents note

Several articles

Correspondents:

Hull, Thomas

Random Walks I (Linear)

Box 21, folder 11

1969, May 1968-1983

Scope and Contents note

MG notes on betting games with Red/Black cards (with letter from Enn Norak and notes from Persi Diaconis)

Correspondents:

Mosteller, Frederick

Mackay, Alan

Oliver, Barney

Norak, Enn

Random Walks II (Plane and Space)

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 21, folder 12

1969, June 1969

Scope and Contents note

Einstein knew of Brownian motion: excerpts of translations of Einstein, from Karol Mysels

Various other non-technical articlas on random walks, from Quandum, the Sciences, American Science, Math Horizens, Sci. Am.

Box 21, folder 13

2-Dim. Walks 1969

Scope and Contents note

Notes & articles on Brownian Motion

MG notes on triangular random walks

Correspondents:

Weiss, Mitchell

Box 21, folder 14

3-D Walks on Skeletons of Solids 1969

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 21, folder 15

Self-Avoidance Walks undated

Scope and Contents note

Just one article: "How to Avoid Yourself", by Brian Hayes, from American Scientist, Vol. 86

Reflections & Rotations

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 8, folder 15

1962, May 1958-1970

Scope and Contents note

"Symmetry and asymmetry and the strange world of upside-down art"

"Explorations", Ed. Marshell Mcluhan, containing "If Wittgenstein had been an Eskimo", by Edmund Carpenter

Correspondents:

Legman, G.

Box 8, folder 16

Upside-Down and Side Pix 1962-?

Scope and Contents note

lots of pictures

Box 8, folder 17

Upside-Down Houses 1869-1984

Rep-Tiles

Physical Description: 3 folder(s)

Box 10, folder 6

1963, May 1963-1996

Scope and Contents note

"Mutession: New Tiling Relationship Among Planar Polygons", by Rochelle Meyer

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Vanderpool, Donald

Hinrichs, Ralph

Mandel, Mark

Reid, Robert

Box 10, folder 7

Self-Similar Fractals [ 1of 2] 1965-1976

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Giles, Jack Jr.

Gosper, Bill

Knuth, Donald

Schattschneider, Doris

Box 10, folder 8

Self-Similar Fractals [2 of 2] 1991-1994

Scope and Contents note

"Classification of Self-Affine Lattice Tilings", Christoph Bandt & Goetz Gelbrich

"Self-Affine Lattice Reptiles with Two Pieces in Rn", by Goetz Gelbrich

"Crystallographic Reptiles", by Goetz Gelbrich

"Fractal Penrose Tilings I", by Christoph Bandt and Petra Gommelt

Rotors

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 9, folder 16

1963, February 1963-1999

Scope and Contents note

Curves of Constant Width

7-sided coin (United Kingdom, 50p)

Article: "Roundness and its Ramifications", by E. Lindberg

"Megalithic Compound Ring Geometry", by Thaddeus Cowan

Correspondents:

Knowlton, William

Herdan, R.

Box 9, folder 17

Kakeya Needle and Other Turning Problems 1963-2001

Scope and Contents note

Several articles and papers

Correspondents:

Neches, Bernard

Box 9, folder 18

Drills for Square Holes, etc. 1959-1964

Scope and Contents note

"How to Drill Square Hexagon Octagon Pentagon Holes", pamphlet from Watts Bros. Tool Works, 1959

Correspondents:

Beck, Dereck

Box 9, folder 19

Rotors in Polygons etc (Goldberg) 1962

Scope and Contents note

Articles on N-Gon rotors

Correspondents:

Goldberg, Michael

Sackson's Game Book

Box 22, folder 6

1969, November 1964-1978

Scope and Contents note

About "A Gamut of Games", by Sid Sackson

Correspondents:

Sackson, Sid

Sam Loyd

Physical Description: 2 folder(s)

Box 2, folder 6

1957, August 1897-1997

Scope and Contents note

two donkey puzzle (donkey puzzle)

14-15 (or Boss) puzzle

Get off the Earth puzzle

Correspondents:

Slocum, Jerry

Shortz, Will

Knuth, Donald

Keeler, Donald

Slocum, Jerry

Box 2, folder 7

Trick Donkey & other Sam Loyd premiums 1884-1999

Scope and Contents note

Various commercial uses of Sam Loyd puzzles

Article on Mel Stover, by Max Maven

Donkey puzzle

Scarne

Box 7, folder 26

1961, December 1961

Scope and Contents note

Several newspaper articles on gambling.

Correspondents:

Stout, John

Russ ??

Science Puzzles

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 16, folder 18

1966, August 1963-1974

Box 16, folder 19

Compton Tube 1966-1995

Scope and Contents note

In Fultz letter, MG mentions his experiences with Compton

Correspondents:

Fultz, Dave

Box 16, folder 20

Hourglass Toy 1963-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Paulus, George

Hein, Piet

Box 17, folder 1

Bell Rope Problem 1966

Box 17, folder 2

Hose Problem 1966

Box 17, folder 3

Bird in Box 1960-1966

Box 17, folder 4

Electrical Paradox of 2 Bulbs 1960-1967

Scott Kim

Physical Description: 5 folder(s)

Box 52, folder 8

1981, June 1981-1996

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Temperley, Nicholas

Kim, Scott

Box 52, folder 9

Kim's Symmetry Art & Lettering 1979-1981

Scope and Contents note

Many, many inversons - photocopies of hand-drawn, plus first draft of text of Inversions book.

Omni article.

Some inversions by readers.

Kim's Christmas cards.

Correspondents:

Kim, Scott

Montalvo, Fanya

Box 52, folder 10

Word Inversions & Reflections 1964-1992

Scope and Contents note

Various examples of word inversions, etc (not Kim's.)

More inversions (from Scot Morris)

Correspondents:

Kim, Scott

Lee, Wallace

McClellan, John

Croft, Dick

Box 52, folder 11

Scott Kim's Queens Problem 1975-1996

Scope and Contents note

Many notes, proofs, etc (Kim & other readers.)

Correspondents:

Kim, Scott

Diaconis, Persi

Hayes, Peter

Box 52, folder 12

Scott Kim Problems (Snakes, etc) 1977-1997

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kim, Scott

Nelson, Harry

Short Problems

Physical Description: 74 folder(s)

Box 14, folder 8

1965, March 1964

Box 14, folder 9

6 Blades Grass 1967

Scope and Contents note

"Brain Teasers and Information Theory", by Waldean Schulz, 1967 (photocopy of typescript)

Box 14, folder 10

The 8-Puzzle 1964-1987

Scope and Contents note

"A Method to Calculate the Minimum Moves Required to Reverse the Serial Position of N-I Consecutively Numberd Blocks on N Unit Spaces When N is ODD and teh Square Root of N an Integer", by Harry Davis (typescript)

Correspondents:

Mitchie, Donald

Schofield, P.D.

Davis, Harry

Box 14, folder 11

T-Teller, Liar, & Randomizer 1965

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Metakides, Th.

Abbott, Robert

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 18, folder 11

1967, March 1963-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Wolff, Alan W.

Box 18, folder 12

NORA x L = ARON 1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Card, L.E.

Gaiennie, Bernerd

Box 18, folder 13

Polyomino Colon "Maps" 1966-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Reid, Robert

Box 18, folder 14

The 3 Pennies (Lucky Light) 1967

Box 18, folder 15

The 10 Soldiers 1964-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Lindon, J.A.

O'Beirne, Thomas

Kruskal, J.B.

Schensted, Craig

Box 18, folder 16

{1,3,8,120,0} 1967-1983

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Van Lint, J.H.

Rowe, R.Robinson

Harman, M.G.

Denton, Arthur

Box 18, folder 17

Dragon Curve (paper fold) [1 of 2] 1966-1967

Scope and Contents note

Lots of drawings of curve

Correspondents:

Harter, William G.

Seitz, Charles

Davis, Chandler

Box 18, folder 18

Dragon Curve (paper fold) [2 of 2] 1967-1998

Scope and Contents note

Couple of articles from Quantum (1995, 1996)

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Hoey, Dan

Franke, Herbert

Sethi, A.S.

Dekking, F.M.

Heighway, John

Box 18, folder 19

3-D Dragon (Wire-bend Curves) 1987

Scope and Contents note

2 copies of "Wire Bending" paper, by Michel Mendes France & J.O. Shallit

Correspondents:

Shallit, Jeffrey

Box 19, folder 13

1967, November 1960-1967

Scope and Contents note

Article

Rope & Knot, Circle of Truths & Liars, Sheep problem

Correspondents:

Charosh, Mannis

Joho, Werner

Coe, Carl

Box 19, folder 14

Folded Cube 1967-1968

Box 19, folder 15

Fertilia - (boys-girls) 1967-1968

Box 19, folder 16

O'Beirnes Tri-Hex Game 1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 19, folder 17

Langford's Problem 1967j-1999

Scope and Contents note

"Some Notes on Langford's Problem", by E.J. Groth (typescript)

Correspondents:

Langford, C. Dudley

Miller, John

Box 19, folder 18

General Langford Problem (Triplets, Etc) 1967-1989

Scope and Contents note

Various technical articles on Langford (& Langford-Skolem) Problem

Correspondents:

Roselle, David

Levine, Eugene

Bosch, Warren

Buler, Michael

Miller, John

Box 21, folder 7

1969, April 1969

Scope and Contents note

Analysis of perfect square problem with negaive & irrational bases (Schensted)

Correspondents:

Schensted, Craig

Holt, Anatol

Box 21, folder 8

Counter & Urn Problems 1969-1975

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kruskal, Martin

Bock, Jay

Perry, R.L.

Box 21, folder 9

The Rotation Table 1964-1969

Scope and Contents note

Lots of solutions

Correspondents:

Isaacs, I. Martin

Knuth, Donald

Kruskal, Martin

Horwitz, Paul

Box 21, folder 10

Presto Chess 1969

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Stover, Mel

Mills, William

Golomb, Solomon

Knuth, Donald

Box 22, folder 11

1970, February 1968-1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Pohl, Frederick

Box 22, folder 12

"Self-Descriptive" No's 1970

Scope and Contents note

analysis

Correspondents:

Hoffman, Dean

Box 22, folder 13

Geography Game 1969

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Kierstead, Friend

Box 22, folder 14

Angle-Sum Proofs 1970

Scope and Contents note

MG folder title was picture of the problem: 3x1 rectangle divided into 3 squares, with 3 lines from base of each verticle to the right-top vertex, as in the article.

Correspondents:

Trigg, Charles

Card, L.E.

Bankoff, Leon

Hoggatt, Vernon

Golomb, Solomon

Box 23, folder 6

1970, November 1969-1970

Scope and Contents note

Article not complete.

Correspondents:

Freeman, Dyson

Milligan, W.Lloyd

Rasig, Richard

Mosteller, Frederick

Rowe, R.Robinson

Box 23, folder 7

Diophantine Problem of 20 Deposits 1966-1984

Scope and Contents note

(20th deposit= 1 million dollars)

Correspondents:

Monzert, Leonard

Hoggatt, Vernon

Schroeder, Manfred

Box 23, folder 8

Cheyney: PI Numbers 1969-1971

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Heech, John

Cheney, Fitch

Hoggatt, Vernon

Longley-Cook, Mark

Box 23, folder 9

Conway's Dodecahedron Puzzle - & Related Ones 1970

Scope and Contents note

Conway's analysis of coloring edges of icosahedra & dodecahedra

Philpotts analysis of othe regular polyhedra

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Conway, John

Hein, Piet

Box 26, folder 13

1973, May 1963-1973

Scope and Contents note

Article - not complete

Original letters (to MG) for many of the problems

Correspondents:

Smullyan, Raymond

Rosenwald, Robert

Philpott, Wade

Pratt, Vaugn

Nokakovic, Miodrag

Huffman, Dean

Box 26, folder 14

Maximum rook Tours (Arrows) 1968-1985

Scope and Contents note

"Rooks Roaming Round Regular Rectangles", by Edward Peters (typescript)

Box 26, folder 15

Infinite Ladders (paradoxes) 1960-1973

Scope and Contents note

Towers of exponents

Box 26, folder 16

Skewes No. & Other Biggies 1972

Scope and Contents note

Ackerman's Function

"Skewered!", by Isaacs Asimov (article from Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, Nov, 1974 on Skewes Number)

Box 26, folder 17

Polypowers (Ladders) 1973-1990

Scope and Contents note

Number of ways to put parentheses in finite ladders of powers

Correspondents:

Sternheimer, R.M.

Skekeres, G.

Grosse, Aristid

Box 27, folder 1

Grosse Letters 1972-1973

Scope and Contents note

About polypowers

Correspondents:

Grosse, Aristid

Box 27, folder 2

Sternheimer (on Polypowers) [1 of 2] 1977-1979

Scope and Contents note

Papers by Sternheimer

Correspondents:

Sternheimer, R.M.

Box 27, folder 3

Sternheimer (on Polypowers) [2 of 2] 1977

Scope and Contents note

One more Sternheimer article

Box 27, folder 4

Other Letters - Polypowers 1973-1974

Scope and Contents note

Skinner discusses "Skinner Function", related to Ackerman's.

Correspondents:

Kramer, Roy

Skinner, Lee

Mullin, Albert

Waldvogel, Jorg

Pechenick, Kay

Box 29, folder 9

1974, April 1974

Scope and Contents note

No article.

Reverse-the-fish letters

Box 29, folder 10

Smullyan's Monochromatic Chess Problem 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hooker, C.J.

Butler, William

Blasberg, Steven

Box 29, folder 11

Circle Theorem 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hein, Piet

Box 29, folder 12

Bookcases Problem 1973-1974

Box 29, folder 13

7 x 13 = 28 Routine 1968-1974

Box 29, folder 14

Flipping Coin (Persi) (Irrational Prob's) 1973-1981

Scope and Contents note

Typed notes (by MG?) about Persi's problem of Irrational Probabilities

Correspondents:

Diaconis, Persi

Shallit, Jeffrey

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Garwin, Richard

Adams, E.N.

Box 29, folder 15

Gun Port Problem 1974

Box 29, folder 16

Functional Fixedness Tests 1974

Box 32, folder 3

1975, March 1975

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete article

Letter on "Sigil of Scoteia"

Box 32, folder 4

Rubber Rope & Worm 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Photocopy of French article by Berloquin

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Gutgasz, Hiram Fuller

Box 32, folder 5

The 11 Poker Chips 1967-1975

Scope and Contents note

Proof (?) 11 coins is minimum, by Thom Sulanke, also by O.P. Lossers, Allen Schwenk

Correspondents:

Crowe, Donald

Golomb, Solomon

Starke, E.P.

Bernhart, Frank

Box 32, folder 6

3 Circles 1975

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Keeler, Donald

Sleater, Daniel

Ogilvy, Stan

Oliver, Barney

Klamkin, Murray

Box 32, folder 7

Mendelsohn's 12345 Game 1974-1997

Scope and Contents note

Silverman's Game (described by Ronal Evens)

"The Game Without A Name Revisited", by N.S. Mendelsohn & Barry Wolk (typescript)

Correspondents:

Stover, Mel

Nelson, Harry

Mendelsohn, Nathan

Box 32, folder 8

Obliterated Chess Game 1973-1975

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Shephard, Geoffrey

Box 32, folder 9

3x3 Cube Rolling Problem 1974-1981

Scope and Contents note

Lots of analysis by Harris

Many computer solutions

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Trigg, Charles

Woods, Donald

Box 32, folder 10

Kaprekar's "Self-Numbers" 1974-1978

Scope and Contents note

More articles

Box 70, folder 2

The Second Coming [3 of 3] 1953-2001

Scope and Contents note

More articles

Box 70, folder 3

SDA Literature 1952-1993

Scope and Contents note

Mostly mail flyers, one article

Box 70, folder 4

Whisenant's 88 Reasons - For 1988 1988-1989

Scope and Contents note

Articles about prophacy, not the actual reasons (aboout the second coming, End-of-the-World)

Box 70, folder 5

Recent Failed Prophecies 1989-2000

Scope and Contents note

Articles about End-Of-World (Second Coming) prophecies

Algebra

Physical Description: 10 folder(s)

Box 8, folder 10

Algebra 1965-1995

Scope and Contents note

Several good algebra problems.

Box 8, folder 11

Graphs 1977

Box 8, folder 12

Clock Puzzles 1964-2000

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Spahn, Mark

Box 8, folder 13

Speed, Distance 1959-1995

Box 8, folder 14

Joint-Effort Prob's (work, grass, eating, etc) 1954-1966

Box 8, folder 15

Linear Programming (Siimplex, & Khachian) 1979-1990

Scope and Contents note

Reports on the Khachian "controversy."

Box 8, folder 16

Karmarkar's Algorithm 1984-1989

Scope and Contents note

Linear Programming.

Box 8, folder 17

Radon Transform (& CAT) 1986-1988

Scope and Contents note

(Also Fermat's Lawst Theorem, and Yoichi Miyaoka's proof (not correct) of it.)

Correspondents:

Gleick, James

Box 8, folder 18

L. Carroll - On Determinants 1986-1996

Scope and Contents note

Abeles, Francine

Box 8, folder 19

Matrix Theory 1992

Arithmetic Numbers

Physical Description: 32 folder(s)

Box 4, folder 1

Numbers (Arith) [1 of 3] 1951-1976

Scope and Contents note

"On Products of Factorials", by P. Erdos & R. Graham (typescript)

"Nonnegative Digit Sets in Positional Number Systems", by A.M. Odyyzko (typescript)

Lots of problems involving integers.

Correspondents:

Nelson, Harry

Silverman, David

Box 4, folder 2

Numbers (Arith) [2 of 3] 1974-1990

Scope and Contents note

"One Plus Two Equals Three", by William Blewett (typescript)

"A New Representation of the Rational Numbers for Fast Easy Arithmetic", by E. Hehner & R. Horspool (typescript)

Correspondents:

Oliver, Barney

Knuth, Donald

Box 4, folder 3

Numbers (Arith) [3 of 3] 1990-2002

Scope and Contents note

Hiroimono, Ziggurats and many other integer problems.

"Strong Law of Small Numbers", by Richard Guy (reprint)

"Zifferntreue Vielfache", by Hans Determann, 1998 (in German)

Correspondents:

Vos Savant, Marilyn

Santora, Norman

Arisawa, Makoto

Knuth, Donald

Wainwright, Robert

Box 4, folder 4

Notation 1981-1982

Scope and Contents note

2 articles, one on notation ambiguities & differences between authors and cultures, the other on Roman numberals.

Box 4, folder 5

Numbers With all 9 (or 10) Digits 1976-1985

Box 4, folder 6

End Digit Transposals 1970-2000

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Card, L.E.

Box 4, folder 7

123456789 & 987654321 1961-2001

Scope and Contents note

"Krypto" game.

Correspondents:

Angstrom, Knut

Patton, Robert

Brainerd, Walter

Hastings, Don

Hein, Piet

Knuth, Donald

Box 4, folder 8

Age Puzzles of all Types 1963-1991

Scope and Contents note

(Originally "Ford" type, Ford is crossed out.)

"Ford" must be Lester Ford.

Correspondents:

Ford, Lester

Theimer, Ernst

Box 4, folder 9

The 4 No's (abs. Difs.) [Ducci] curiosity 1966-1992

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Meyers, Leroy

Box 4, folder 10

The Looping Formulas 1973-1991

Scope and Contents note

"On Periodic Sequences Defined by Recurrences", by Conway & Graham (photocopy)

Correspondents:

Liu, Stanley Wu-Wei

Graham, Ron

Bosch, Warren

Conway, John

Eberhard, Steven

Lenard, Andrew

Box 4, folder 11

Josephus Problem 1960-1972

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kaplansky, Irving

Box 4, folder 12

Rep-A Decimals 1961-1994

Scope and Contents note

Recurring decimals?

Correspondents:

Spat, Melvin

Morris, Scot

Box 4, folder 13

Artih. Shortcuts 1956-1972

Scope and Contents note

Many MG notes.

Correspondents:

Smith, Cedric

Box 4, folder 14

Cryptarithms 1959-1998

Scope and Contents note

Lots of examples; variations, other bases, etc.

Correspondents:

Cheney, Fitch

Kruskal, Martin

Computer Art & Graphics [1 of 2], Don

Kahan, Steven

Box 4, folder 15

From Alan Wayne (Cryptarithms) 1975-1989

Box 4, folder 16

Numbers as Words (Cryptarithms) 1968-1994

Scope and Contents note

... and foreign language.

Correspondents:

Piel, Gerard

Yoshagihara, Nob

Gordon, Leonard

Box 5, folder 1

Skeleton Puzzles 1939-1994

Scope and Contents note

Cryptarithms with all (or some) numbers starred.

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 5, folder 2

Fractions 1961-2000

Scope and Contents note

"Numerous Numberals", by James Henly, NCTM, 1975 (pamphlet)

"Minimidy Modules", by Samual Yates, 1978 (draft)

Correspondents:

Henle, James

Box 5, folder 3

Continued Fractions 1952-1996

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Gosper, Bill

Hill, F.S.

Allison, Marvin

Box 5, folder 4

Continued Square Roots 1995

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Clawson, Calvin

Box 5, folder 5

Binary System Items 1954-1993

Scope and Contents note

Hugard's Magic Monthly, pp. 161-164 (July, 1954).

Digicomp (plastic toy digital computer) c1964.

Bar Codes article.

Lots of MG notes, many small items.

Correspondents:

Hansson, Sven-Ove

Box 5, folder 6

Duodecimal & Other Systems 1959-1971

Scope and Contents note

Publications of the Duodecimal Society of America, including several Duodecimal Bulletins.

"Others" are a short article on Octal Number System, and one on Hexadecimal numbers.

Box 5, folder 7

Metric System 1972-1987

Scope and Contents note

Several metric calculators.

Several articles on whether to switch or not.

"Metric Style Guide", Canada, 1975 (pamphlet).

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Box 5, folder 8

Mixed Radix Notation 1975

Scope and Contents note

"Variable Number Base", by Francis Miles (typescript with cover letter.)

Box 5, folder 9

Multipication (Rapid) (& Napier's Bones) 1967-1975

Scope and Contents note

MG notes.

Correspondents:

Healey, Tim

Flanagan, Dennis (to Knuth)

Box 5, folder 10

Euler's Gamma Constant (& Function) & Relation to Factorials 1959-1972

Box 5, folder 11

Logarithms 1973-1978

Scope and Contents note

"Logarithms", by N. David Mermin (typescript)

Correspondents:

Mermin, N.D.

Lanterman, W.F.

Box 5, folder 12

Tarry-Escott Problem 1937-1965

Box 5, folder 13

Moebius Strip Slide Rule for complex Numbers 1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kofman, Gil

Box 5, folder 14

Numbers Without 1's Problem (Steve Kuhn) 1987

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Kuhn, Steven

Box 5, folder 15

Bar Codes 1991

Box 5, folder 16

Partition Theory 1959-1000

Scope and Contents note

Many MG notes.

"The Division of a Number into Parts So That The Product ... Maximum", by Harry Lawther (manuscript photocopy)

Correspondents:

Andrews, George

Lawther, Harry

Halliburton, Jack

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Physical Description: 13 folder(s)

Box 45, folder 12

Recognizing Faces 1995

Scope and Contents note

1 article, from Discover

Box 45, folder 13

Art. Intell. (AI) 1960-1993

Scope and Contents note

Many articles, techniical & popular, and references & notes on AI

Box 45, folder 14

Turing Machine 1967-1989

Scope and Contents note

Articles, mostly technical

Box 45, folder 15

Turing Game 1950-1973

Scope and Contents note

Turing Game is "imitation game" or "Turing Test"

Several technical articles

"Computing Machinery and Intelligence", by A.M. Turing, Mind, 1950

Box 45, folder 16

Can Computers "Think", be "Conscious" - etc (Searle, etc) 1971-1991

Scope and Contents note

Several articles, technical as well as popular, mostly philosophical

(Subject of June, 1971, Mathematical Games column)

Correspondents:

Sekal, Alan

Gunderson, Keith

Hawton, Michael

Box 45, folder 17

M. Adler on Computers & AI 1968

Scope and Contents note

Long typescript review by MG, of Mortimer Adler's work

MG notes

"New York Review" review of 2 Adler books (not by MG)

Box 45, folder 18

The Human Brain - Simulation of Life, etc 1955-1987

Scope and Contents note

Many articles, mostly popular, some technical

"Mathematical Models for the Living Brain", by N.G. de Bruijn, 22pp (typescript)

Box 45, folder 19

Pattern Recognition & Perceptrons 1966-2002

Scope and Contents note

A few popular articles

Box 45, folder 20

Induction Programs 1981-1985

Scope and Contents note

... and Expert Systems

Several articles

Box 45, folder 21

LISP 1983

Scope and Contents note

3 S.A. articles (Hofstadter)

Box 45, folder 22

Talking Computers 1972-1988

Scope and Contents note

Several articles

Box 45, folder 23

Translating Languages 1956-1989

Scope and Contents note

Several articles

Box 45, folder 24

Robotics 1951-2000

Scope and Contents note

MG references and notes

Lots of articles

Correspondents:

Helmers, Carl

Bible

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 69, folder 1

Bible & Numerology 1954-1993

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Borgmann, Dmitri

Box 69, folder 2

Gematria (Cabbala) & Medieval 1959-1997

Box 69, folder 3

Panin 1934-1983

Scope and Contents note

Ivan Panin, a Russian fundamentalist & numerologist

Box 69, folder 4

The 144,000 Saints 1975-1988

Scope and Contents note

Seventh Day Adventist views

Jehovah's Witnesses views

Box 69, folder 5

Elvin Lee 1982-1984

Scope and Contents note

Correspondance with autobiographical information, mathematics problems & puzzles, and biblical numerology

Amicible numbers

Box 69, folder 6

Norman Bloom 1976

Scope and Contents note

2 copies of "The New World", publication by Norman Bloom, from Aug. 8, 1976 and Nov. 15, 1976

Board Games

Physical Description: 27 folder(s)

Box 32, folder 10

Board Games [1 of 2] 1961-1975

Scope and Contents note

Many games described or analysed, including:

Jews & Arabs

Coprime Nim

Kercheck (Maxey Brooke) ("Retreat")

Switch

Games on Shogi board

Lines of Action

Tromino Go

Jungle

Null

Laska

Knight Chase

Fez

Towers

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Penszko, Marek

Abbott, Robert

Shepherd, Wilfred

Sackson, Sid

Thayer, John

Scott, Gini

Randlett, Samuel

Feather, Martin

Box 32, folder 11

Board Games [2 of 2] 1977-1996

Scope and Contents note

Senet

Kensington

Square Off

Dodge

Terrorist Attach 101

Correspondents:

Shahshahani, S.

Walton, Dale

Abbott, Robert

Parkin, Robert

Box 32, folder 12

Solomon Game 1982-1992

Scope and Contents note

Combinatorial board

A game by MG, subtitled "A Game of Peace"

"Solomon: The Game of Peace", by Martin Gardner, 26pp (typescript) - Description, history, strategy & variations for the game

Correspondents:

Schmittberger, Wayne

Jones, Kathy

Box 32, folder 13

Soloman Puzzles 1984

Scope and Contents note

MG notes on puzzles from game of Solomon

Box 33, folder 1

Go 1970-1998

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Wells, David

Wynn, Stephen

Box 33, folder 2

Mastermind (& Bulls & Cows) 1966-1977

Scope and Contents note

Several attempted analyses

Correspondents:

Rasper, John

Morgan, Dennis

Gittings, Thomas

Box 33, folder 3

Simple Games - Solution Known & Unknown 1956-1996

Scope and Contents note

Tiger and Elephants

Winemanship

"Theorem on Certain Types of Games, with Applications", by Herbert Salzer (typescript); includes Nim, Kayles, Cornering the Pig

"Cheap, Middling, or Dear", by V. Chuatal (typescript)

"Silverman's Game on Intervals", by Ronald Evens (typescript)

Correspondents:

Silverman, David

Salzer, Herbert

Liu, Andy

Box 33, folder 4

Phutball 1974-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Knuth, Donald

Atwater, Thomas

Box 33, folder 5

Mancala Games 1894-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Weinberg, Gerald

Box 33, folder 6

McCue's Automata (Tanks) Game 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

McCue, Brian

Box 33, folder 7

Logiquad (Marbles) 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Pos, Norman

Box 33, folder 8

Hexagonal Tessellation Games (Chinese Checkers, etc.) 1964-1983

Scope and Contents note

Hexcheckers (game in different folder)

Agon & Queens Guard

Hex-A-Board

Surround (Edward Weed)

Wargame simulations in John Koontz letter

Correspondents:

Koontz, John

Shepherd, Wilfred

Box 33, folder 9

Marek Penszko 1969-1983

Scope and Contents note

Various games & puzzles, printed on card stock, including Mini Krzyzowki, Teczowy Kwiat, Waz, Wi Row Ka, Harcaby, Kratkownica, & Nakrywanka

Box 33, folder 10

Triangular Bridg-it 1964

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Tripp, John

Box 33, folder 11

Twixt & Variants 1969-1978

Box 33, folder 12

Rithmomachy 1946-1989

Scope and Contents note

"Boissiere's Pythagorean Game", by John F.C. Richards, 1946 (pamphlet reprint)

Box 33, folder 13

Monopoly 1973-1996

Scope and Contents note

Shortest Monopoly game

Many newspaper articles about history, lawsuits, and other related Monopoly happenings

Correspondents:

Cave, James

Hoffman, Paul

Box 33, folder 14

Laska 1980

Scope and Contents note

Sixstaxs, a solitaire (peg jumping) puzzle from Laska

Correspondents:

Lushbaugh, Warren

Box 33, folder 15

Backgammon 1980-1981

Box 33, folder 16

Nost 1967

Scope and Contents note

Knights of the Square Table

Box 33, folder 17

Epaminodas (Abbott) 1974

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Box 33, folder 18

Holt's "Mem" 1968

Box 33, folder 19

Simulation Games 1971-1983

Scope and Contents note

Many ads for various simulation games

Box 34, folder 1

War Games 1962-1982

Scope and Contents note

Articles on war games and war gaming

Correspondents:

Schwartz, Benjamin

Box 34, folder 2

Chinese Checkers (Hist.) 1994

Scope and Contents note

Issue of quarterly journal, Hedge Apple and Devil's Claw, Spring, 1994, by John Brewer. Contains several stories and articles by him, including his attemps to trace the history of Chinese Checkers.

Box 34, folder 3

Lewis Carroll Game 1990-1997

Scope and Contents note

Word game by MG, based on an idea of Lewis Carroll, played on a chess board

Correspondents:

Jones, Kathy

Knuth, Donald

Box 34, folder 4

Dots & Squares 1958-2001

Scope and Contents note

Analyses by B.B. Compton Crick, Robert Rubinstein, Newark State College, J.P. Ballantine, Greg Chaitin, Ronald Wiener, and more.

Also some variations: Cubes, Q-Bickles, Dots & Triangle's, & hexagons.

Correspondents:

Berlekamp, Elwyn

Crick, M.F.Compton

Chaitin, Greg

Wiener, Ronald

Chess

Box 58, folder 1

Bobby Fischer [1 of 2] 1958-1972

Scope and Contents note

Many articles on Fischer, mostly newspaper, and mostly on the 1972 match with Boris Spassky

Box 58, folder 2

Bobby Fischer [2 of 2] 1972-1992

Scope and Contents note

More articles

Box 58, folder 3

Polgar Sisters 1993-1994

Scope and Contents note

2 popular articles

Box 58, folder 4

Checkerboard Puzzles (The board itself, no chess pieces) 1957-1982

Scope and Contents note

Mostlly checkerboard dissections. Much analysis, by MG & others.

Different board sizes, etc.

Impossibility proofs

2 or 4 congruent halfs or quarters

Polyomino dissections

Cut & re-arrange

Correspondents:

Marlow, T.

Golomb, Solomon

Scott, Dana

Morris, Lockwood

Box 58, folder 5

Queen Tours - & Dot Problems (& King Tours) 1962-1999

Scope and Contents note

Graphs on point lattices

"Minimum Segment Polygonal Paths on Point Lattices", by Solomon Golomb (typescript)

Many problems and solutions, and some analysis

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Box 58, folder 6

Superposable Queens 1962-1984

Scope and Contents note

n sets of n queens on nxn board, each set one color, so no queen attacks another of the same color. Also "Pegboard Problem", and "Hoo-Doo"

MG idea for marketable version (order 7)

Impossibility proof of n=8

Box 58, folder 7

Queen Problems (Static) 1960-1998

Scope and Contents note

Various queen problems, mostly attacking cells on chessboard

Queens on hexagonal board, on a cylinder, on a torus, etc.

"On the Queen Domination Problem", by Charles Grimstead, et.al. (typescript)

Box 58, folder 8

The Non-Attacking Queens (& 3-Spacde Cases) 1962-2001

Scope and Contents note

"The Unexpected Two Dimensional Space-Group Containing Seven of the Twelve Basic Solutions to the 8 Queens Problem", by David Hollander, 1972 (typescript)

"A Linear Time Algorithm for Constructing a Solution to the N-Queens Problem", by Bruce Abramson & Mordechai Yung, 1984 (typescript)

"Queen Squares", by David Klarner, 1978 (report) - 3D cases

Box 58, folder 9

Clyde Minton - Queen Tasks, ETc. 2000

Scope and Contents note

"Generalizing a Classic Statical Chess Board Puzzle", by C.C. Minton, 91pp (typescript)

Correspondents:

Minton, Clyde

Box 58, folder 10

Misc. Chess Puzzles 1961-1998

Scope and Contents note

Many chess problems and references

"Chess and Mathematics Bibliography", by Loren Larson, 1974 (mimeo)

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Charosh, Mannis

Stover, Mel

Box 58, folder 11

Nonattacking Rooks 1962-1996

Scope and Contents note

Problems and formula for how many

Correspondents:

Larson, Loren

Golomb, Solomon

Charnley, Donald

Box 58, folder 12

Costas Arrays 1984

Scope and Contents note

1 articles (by Solomon Golomb)

Box 58, folder 13

Rook, Bishop tours 1948-1999

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Several problems & analyses

Correspondents:

Austin, A.K.

Guertin, Richard

Box 58, folder 14

Rooks, Bishops, Kings (Static) 1971-1990

Scope and Contents note

Problem of attacking all squares

Much MG analysis & notes

Box 58, folder 15

Kriegspiel 1962-1980

Scope and Contents note

"Kriegspiel and Phantom Chess", by Robert Abbott (computer printout)

Also called "The Chess War Game"

Various descriptions & sets of rules

Box 58, folder 16

Max & Min. Chess Problems, The 8-Pieces (Feb/62) 1962-1989

Scope and Contents note

Many reader solutions to 8 pieces attacking maximum or minimum number of squares

Box 58, folder 17

Smullyan - Chess Problems 1973-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondance about Smullyans books on retrograde chess problems

Some Smullyan monochromatic-move problems

Correspondents:

Smullyan, Raymond

Box 59, folder 1

Knight Problems 1967-1999

Scope and Contents note

"A Linear Algorithm For Computing the Knight's Domination Number of a KxN Chessboard", by E.O. Hare & S.T. Hedetniemi (typescript)

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Box 59, folder 2

Knight Tours 1967-1999

Scope and Contents note

Lots of MG notes

Knuth's typefont for knights tours

Correspondents:

Francis, Darryl

Knuth, Donald

Jelliss, G.P.

Box 59, folder 3

Fairy Piece Tours Undated

Scope and Contents note

1 article, by Pickover

Box 59, folder 4

Curious "Mate in -" Problems 1965-1985

Scope and Contents note

Many problems & notes of problems

Correspondents:

Moser, Leo

Charosh, Mannis

Box 59, folder 5

Minimal Mating Sets on Infinite Boards 1975

Scope and Contents note

1 letter/analysis, by S.P. Gobel

Box 59, folder 6

Chess-Misc. (Fiction, Philos, Etc) 1954-1975

Scope and Contents note

A couple of stories, several story references & discriptions

Box 59, folder 7

Is Chess NP-Complete 1981

Scope and Contents note

One article , by Aviezri Fraenkel

Box 59, folder 8

Fairy Chess 1960-2002

Scope and Contents note

Lots of discriptions of variant chess rules and variant pieces

Several "Stovers Side Show" columns

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Boyer, Joseph

Pritchard, David

Box 59, folder 9

3-D Chess 1952-1994

Scope and Contents note

Many discriptions of 3-D chess versions

Manuscript ofr book on 3-D chess, by Peter-Rene Tottger, ~44 pp, in German, many color pictures, 1994

Box 59, folder 10

Minimum Short Games 2000

Scope and Contents note

1 page from Mario Velucchi

Box 59, folder 11

6-Tuplet & 7-Tuplet Pawns 1976-1977

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Nelson, Harry

Kirtley, Mark

Rubin, Sidney

Box 59, folder 12

Mathematics of the Chessboard 2002

Scope and Contents note

Manuscript of book by John Watkins, 16pp, 12 figures, sent to MG for review (but he declined)

Box 59, folder 13

Computer Chess [1 of 3] 1950-1971

Scope and Contents note

Many articles, mostly popular, on computer chess

Correspondents:

Moss, Moe

Lasker, Edward

Box 59, folder 14

Computer Chess [2 of 3] 1972-1978

Scope and Contents note

"Computable Sub-Games of Chess", by Donald Michie, 1978 (draft)

Correspondents:

Michie, Donald

Box 59, folder 15

Computer Chess [3 of 3] 1979-1998

Combinatorics

Physical Description: 62 folder(s)

Box 22, folder 16

Combinatorics Problems [1 of 2] 1964-1987

Scope and Contents note

Many problems, solutions, and analyses

Correspondents:

Feldman, Anatol

Knuth, Donald

Hein, Piet

Narayanan

Box 22, folder 17

Combinatorics Problems [2 of 2] 1973-1998

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Nelson, Harry

Box 23, folder 1

Misc. Refs, Jokes, etc 1965-2000

Scope and Contents note

"Backtrack Programming Techniques", by James R. Bitner & Edward Reingold, 1974 (typescript)

"Theory of Combinatorial Arrangements(no author, no date), 10pp, (Photocopy)

Box 23, folder 2

NP-Complete [Complexity Theory] 1976-2000

Scope and Contents note

Complexity Theory (outline by MG?) (typescript)

Many articles

Box 23, folder 3

Zero-Knowledge Proofs 1986-1996

Scope and Contents note

(Public Key encryption?)

"Unconditionallyl Secure Protocols", (no author, no date), 6pp (typescript)

"Expected Value Payment Method ...", patent application by Michael Rossides, 1991 (draft typescript)

Box 23, folder 4

Traveling Salesman 1954-1995

Scope and Contents note

Many articles

Correspondents:

Dwyer, David

Box 23, folder 5

Lin's Traveling Salesman Max 1985

Scope and Contents note

Mostly articles, analyses, and results on best path between the 48 state capitals

Correspondents:

Lin, Shen

Padberg, Manfred

Box 23, folder 6

Knapsack Problems 1974-1991

Scope and Contents note

Several MG suggestions of ways to present simple knapsack problems as puzzles.

Several articles with algorithms

Correspondents:

Johnson, David

Box 23, folder 7

Min. & Max. Adjacent Cells of Squares, N-cubes, Torus, etc 1964-1985

Scope and Contents note

MG notes on various problems

"On Mappings from 2 to 1 Dimensions which Minimize the Separation of Images of Adjacent Points", by Graeme Mitchenson & Richard Durbin (typescript)

Correspondents:

Liu, Andy

Trigg, Charles

Golomb, Solomon

Box 23, folder 8

Combinatorial Card Problems 1970-1999

Scope and Contents note

Game analyses (Concentration; Red or Black; Mind Poker, etc)

Many MG problems, analyses, suggestions

"Ten Card Poker Deal", by Jon Racherbaumer

Poker tricks, ESP tricks

Correspondents:

Avallone, Robert

Hein, Piet

Diaconis, Persi

Harkleroad, Leon

Box 23, folder 9

The 31 Card Game (also Die) 1974-1985

Scope and Contents note

Variations & analyses of summing numbers from 1-6, to make 31

Booklets on the game (and variations)

Correspondents:

Van Note, Peter

Box 23, folder 10

Non-Messing-Up Theorem 1971

Scope and Contents note

Booklet by David Gale & Richard Karp, 1971

Correspondents:

Gale, David

Box 23, folder 11

Young Tableaux & Non-Mess Theorem; Ferrer's Graph 1976-1995

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

"Young Tableaux", by Richard Stanley (27 pp) (typescript)

Correspondents:

Wilf, Herbert

Schensted, Craige

Box 24, folder 1

Card Sorting 1978-1995

Scope and Contents note

Several different sorting problems, and several different algorithms to solve them.

"Nontrivial Improvements to the Hwan-Lin Merging Algorithm", by Glenn Manacher (typescript)

"Choosing Fair Teams", by Larry Carter & John Gill (typescript)

Correspondents:

Manacher, Glenn

Jackson, Bradley

Box 24, folder 2

Generalized Tower of Hanoi 1972-1991

Scope and Contents note

Discussions & results on this (still unproved) problem.

"The Towers and Triangles of Professor Claus", by David Poole (typescript)

Correspondents:

Manacher, Glenn

Maurer, Stephen

Rivest, Ronald

Poole, David

Box 24, folder 3

Panex Puzzle 1983

Scope and Contents note

Notes from the manufacturer

"Some Results on the Panex Puzzle", by Mark Manasse, Danny Sleator, Victor Wei (typescript)

Correspondents:

Hess, Richard

Nokihara, Hiroshi

Graham, Ron

Box 24, folder 4

Voting - Tournaments, Committees, Seatings, Walks, Etc. [1 of 2] 1963-1983

Scope and Contents note

Photocopies of Lewis Carroll letters to St.-James Gazette, on Lawn Tennis Tournaments (6 letters, all 1883).

Many articles.

"Quasigroups and Tactical Systems", by Ronald Baker, 1995 (typescript)

"Tournament Configuration and Weighted Voting", by B.E. Wynne & T.V. Narayama (typescript)

"Regular Tournament Design", by E. Mendlesohn, 1977 (typescript)

Correspondents:

Assmus, Ed

Penrose, Roger

Mendelsohn, Eric

Box 24, folder 5

Voting - Tournaments, Committees, Seatings, Walks, Etc. [2 of 2] 1984-1998

Scope and Contents note

Many articles, several on voting paradoxes.

"Some Unsolved Problems", by David Singmaster (typescript)

Box 24, folder 6

Spouse-Free Tennis Tournament 1960-1975

Scope and Contents note

Equivalent to Self-orthogonal Latin squares.

Correspondents:

Wilson, Richard

Box 24, folder 7

Comb. Die Problems [1 of 2] 1966-1985

Scope and Contents note

31 game.

Dice problems based on structure of faces.

Dice Rolling [to?s]

"A Mathematical Analysis of the Game of Thirty-One", by Richard Steinberg (typescript)

Oriental Dice

Correspondents:

Diaconis, Persi

Celko, Joe

Steinberg, Richard

Towler, Don

Kobon

Friedland, Aaron

Box 24, folder 8

Comb. Die Problems [2 of 2] 1969-1999

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Cammann, Schuyler

Thorp, Edward

Epstein, Richard

Maven, Max

Box 24, folder 9

Petals Around Rose 1976-1989

Scope and Contents note

Also "Roots", and "Missed the Boat"

Roll dice, figure number they represent

Box 24, folder 10

Bingo 1963-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Lessing, Ronald

Lansing, Cornelius

Box 24, folder 11

Weighing Problems [1 of 2] 1963-1984

Scope and Contents note

Many different weighing problems, including many false-coin problems, and mathematical analysis of problems.

2 false coin puzzles from Emmet Duffy, along with cardboard calculators for each (and the original 12-coin problem) & instructions for use. (Calculators in separate folder.)

Correspondents:

Duffy, Emmet

Tanner, Leslie

Box 24, folder 12

Comb. Die Problems [2 of 2] 1963-1997

Scope and Contents note

"The False-Coin Problem - a Colorful Approach", by Uri Leron, Technion Preprint MT443, 1979

Box 24, folder 13

12 Coins 1955-2001

Scope and Contents note

Variations, references.

Solutions using words (12 different letters).

Correspondents:

Card, L.E.

O'Beirne, Thomas

Cheney, Fitch

Riecker, Carl Jr.

Wiley, Roland

Box 25, folder 1

Median Algebra (& Cards) (Craige Schensted) 1978

Scope and Contents note

Long letter from Schensted that develops aAgebra of Medians, discusses its relationship to Boolean Algebra & Calculus of Propostions, and gives a couple of card tricks based on it.

Correspondents:

Schensted, Craige

Box 25, folder 2

Stable Marriage, & College Admissions Problem 1962

Scope and Contents note

Original article (by Gale & Shapley), plus MG notes from Gilman's lecture.

Box 25, folder 3

The 21 "IDOO" Problem 1972-1975

Scope and Contents note

IDOO = Isolated Diamonds, Order One (in MacMahon Squares.)

Correspondents:

Fink, Federico

Harris, John

Box 25, folder 4

The 9-Piece Subset of MacMahon 3-Color Squares (Torus) 1974-1975

Scope and Contents note

Using the 9 MacMahon pieces that show all 3 colors, match all edges toroidally.

Analysis of puzzle and game.

Correspondents:

Nelson, Harry

Philpott, Wade

Box 25, folder 5

Finite Projective Planes 1961-1962

Scope and Contents note

2 articles, MG notes.

Box 25, folder 6

Empirical Formulas to which Calc. Finite Difs May be Applies 1961-1991

Scope and Contents note

3-color cubes

Coloring of sides, faces of figures.

Tetrahedra.

Paths in Square City Blocks.

Intersecting lines.

Dissecting lines with points, plane with lines, etc.

"Region Count for Straight Line Cutting of Flat Figures", by W. Funkenbusch & R. Odendahl (typescript)

Mostly MG notes and calculations, plus some articles.

Box 25, folder 7

Pell Equation undated

Scope and Contents note

"Pell's Equation - A Tool For the Puazle Smith", by Mogens Esron Larsen (typescript)

Box 25, folder 8

Counters (Place or Move) (Cards, Etc.) [1 of 2] 1959-1985

Scope and Contents note

Slide & Jump puzzle (Leap Frog)

Some peg jumping games.

"Pegboard Games", by D. G. Tabta, Mathematical Teaching Pamphlet No. 13, 1967

Hanky Panky (Forming piles).

Color exchanges on 2-D boards

... and many more similar puzzles & games

Correspondents:

Kaplan, Philip

Box 25, folder 9

Comb. Die Problems [2 of 2] 1961-2002

Scope and Contents note

Penny-dime problems (permuting the order)

Correspondents:

Gombert, Jan Martin

McNear, John

Box 25, folder 10

Sliding Penny Puzzles 1995-2002

Box 25, folder 11

Alternating Coins OoOoOo & Variants 1960-1998

Scope and Contents note

Paper on Penny-dime probmes, by Gombert(typescript)

Analysis, articles, MG notes.

Correspondents:

Liu, Stanley Wu-Wei

Gombert, Jan Martin

Hitotumatu, Sin

Bergerson, Howard

Box 25, folder 12

The Russian Pebble Problem 1992-2000

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Liu, Andy

Murray, Jason

Box 25, folder 13

Dividing the Cake [1 of 2] 1967-1992

Scope and Contents note

MG notes, references.

Many algorithms for fair division, both in letters and articles.

Correspondents:

Brams, Steven

Saemundsson, Th.

Balinski, M.L.

Cottingham, Charles

Box 25, folder 14

Dividing the Cake [2 of 2] 1992-2002

Scope and Contents note

Many more articles and algorithms.

Box 25, folder 15

Switching Puzzles 1987-1989

Scope and Contents note

2 articles: reversing trains, and Dewdney article.

Box 26, folder 1

Firing Squad Problem 1965-1972

Scope and Contents note

Synchronization problem with finite state machines.

"The Firing Squad Problem", by W.F. Lunnon, 1970 (typescript)

Box 26, folder 2

Busy Beaver Problems 1981-1989

Scope and Contents note

5-state Turing machine to print maximal no. of 1's.

Correspondents:

Gallimore, Nicholas

Box 26, folder 3

Postage Stamp Problem 1978-2000

Scope and Contents note

Least amount that cannot be made with at most t stamps, each one valued at one of k denominations.

Correspondents:

Rogers, Douglas

Guy, Richard

Box 26, folder 4

Pantactic 1965-1993

Scope and Contents note

"Phagic Squares", by Ian Stewart, ~1972 (typescript).

"Pseudo-Random Sequences and Arrays", by F.J. MacWilliams and N.J.A. Sloane (typescript).

MG notes.

Correspondents:

Stewart, Ian

Astle, Brian

Box 26, folder 5

Ising Problem 1971

Scope and Contents note

1 article (by Harary) + 1 page MG notes.

Box 26, folder 6

The Circular Ruler 1973-1982

Scope and Contents note

"On the Set of Distances Determined by the Union of Arithmetic Progressions", by F.R.K. Chung & R.L. Graham (typescript).

MG notes.

Correspondents:

Grimsey, A.H.R.

James, David

Box 26, folder 7

Checkers & Go are P Space Hard (& Chess results) 1978-1981

Scope and Contents note

Various articles.

Correspondents:

Johnson, David

Fraenkel, Aviezri

Box 26, folder 8

Costas Arrays (2D "Rulers"), Golomb & Taylor 1982-1983

Scope and Contents note

2 Golomb articles (one with Taylor)

Box 26, folder 9

The Condom Problem 1977-1989

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Vardi, Ilan

Lipton, Richard

Ghijsen, Jacques

Box 26, folder 10

Ferry (Crossing) Problems 1961-1997

Scope and Contents note

Many rivere crossing problems, analysis, MG notes, etc.

Box 26, folder 11

Error Correcting Codes [1 of 2] 1950-1976

Scope and Contents note

Many articles, preprints, reprints, etc.

Box 26, folder 12

Error Correcting Codes [2 of 2] 1976-1999

Box 26, folder 13

Guess A Number Game 1972-1990

Scope and Contents note

Mediocrity

Bulls & Cows (numberic Mastermind) (Moo)

Silverman's Game

Guess a Number - With Lying

Toetjes Problem

Correspondents:

Hofstadter, Douglas

Eachus, Joseph

Hawkins, David

Box 26, folder 14

Ulam's Guess a Number with Lies 1974-2001

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Hawkins, David

Box 26, folder 15

Point-Set Coloring 1993

Box 26, folder 16

Self Avoiding Walks 1992-1994

Box 26, folder 17

Bay Restaurant 1974

Box 26, folder 18

Jeep Problem 1995

Box 26, folder 19

Pancake Problem 1995

Scope and Contents note

Analysis by Leslie Upton

Correspondents:

Upton, Leslie

Box 26, folder 20

Paper Fold (Andy Liu) 1999

Scope and Contents note

"Group Folding and Groups Unfolded", by Andy Liu (typescript)

Box 26, folder 21

Rolling Cubes undated

Computers

Physical Description: 43 folder(s)

Box 43, folder 1

Computer vs Hand Proofs (Experimental Math) 1978-1994

Scope and Contents note

Several articles discussing computer proofs, especially in reference to 4-color theroem, mostly from a philosophic perspective

Correspondents:

Tymoczko, Thomas

Swart, Edward

Boas, R.P.

Box 43, folder 2

History - Electronic Calculators 1964-1995

Scope and Contents note

Mostly newspaper & popular science magazines

Box 43, folder 3

Influence on Math 1977-1989

Scope and Contents note

Discrete Mathematics, algorithms

Box 43, folder 4

Early Mechanical Devices (& New Hardware) 1973-1993

Scope and Contents note

Napiers Bones, Babbage, Adding machines, etc.

Package (but ot item) of "Consul", the Educated Monkey, a calculator

Correspondents:

Williams, Michael

Luebbert, William

Harary, Frank

Box 43, folder 5

Fluidics 1960-1998

Scope and Contents note

Some articles (SA & others)

Box 43, folder 6

Automation, Cybernetics [1 of 2] 1948-1965

Scope and Contents note

Many articles (newspaper, popular science) on automation, its' advantages & its' dangers

Box 43, folder 7

Automation, Cybernetics [2 of 2] 1938-1993

Scope and Contents note

Collection of 1952 SA articles on automatic control, because the book based on them cut the articles and the pictures

Box 43, folder 8

Analog Devices 1984-1985

Scope and Contents note

2 SA articles by Dewdney

Box 43, folder 9

Teaching Machines 1960-1963

Scope and Contents note

Articles

Box 43, folder 10

Computer & Video Games 1974-1994

Scope and Contents note

Several (mostly popular) articles

Box 43, folder 11

Pocket Calculators 1972-1981

Scope and Contents note

Several articles, popular & technical

Box 43, folder 12

Pocket Calculator Problems 1965-1980

Scope and Contents note

Various ideas for calculator problems, many by MG

Calculation a square root

Box 43, folder 13

Inverted Words 1974-1979

Scope and Contents note

... on a calculator

"Dictionary and Games For Pocket Calculators", by David, Sarah, & C. Peter Rosenbaum, 1975, 22p (typescript)

Lots of examples

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Box 43, folder 14

Calculator Tricks & Stunts 1973-1983

Scope and Contents note

Chinese Remainder Theorem

ABCABC

Many calculator magic tricks

Correspondents:

Lyons, L. Vosburgh

Hudson, Charles

Stover, Mel

Altman, David

Neale, Bob

Golomb, Solomon

Box 44, folder 1

Pocket Calculator Games 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Set of problems from the HP-65 Users Club (1975)

Subtraction game from Lynn Yarbrough

Correspondents:

Yarbrough, Lynn

Box 44, folder 2

Endpaper (NYT) (Pocket Calculator 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Notes & suggestions fro "Endpaper" column for the New YOrk Times

Correspondents:

Collins, Glenn

Box 44, folder 3

Dynamic Programming (Bellman) undated

Scope and Contents note

SA article on Control Theory, by Richard Bellman

Box 44, folder 4

The L.E.D. & L.C.D. Readouts 1969-1976

Scope and Contents note

Various ways to write numerals and letters in grids

Box 44, folder 5

Computer Poetry (& Relation to Literature, etc.) 1971-1983

Scope and Contents note

3 articles on computer verse

Box 44, folder 6

Supercomputers (nonorganic) 1958-2000

Scope and Contents note

Various articles, mostly popular science magazines & newspapers, on progress in supercomputing design & types of supercomputers

"The Cosmological Limits on Computation", by Frank Tipler, 85pp (typescript)

Box 44, folder 7

Parallel Processing & Coming Supercomputers 1983-1996

Scope and Contents note

Articles, mostly popular

Also "Fifth Generation"

Box 44, folder 8

Information Retrieval -- HGW's World Brain 1960-1998

Scope and Contents note

H.G. Wells

Many articles, technical and popular

Box 44, folder 9

Computer Art & Graphics [1 of 2] 1966-1996

Scope and Contents note

Including various artists, and Tex

Correspondents:

Lurker, Ernst

Geckeler, Siegfried

Badler, Norman

O'Brien, James

Lambert, Frank

Box 44, folder 10

Computer Art & Graphics [2 of 2] 1980

Scope and Contents note

Folder & press release on artist Enrique Castro-Cid, and exhibition at Lowe Art Museum

Box 44, folder 11

Word Processors 1981-1985

Scope and Contents note

3 articles, 2 on authors switching to word processors, one on loss of corrected manustripts to history

Box 44, folder 12

Molecular Computers (Nanotechnology) 1982-2001

Scope and Contents note

Lots of articles, technical & popular

Correspondents:

Regis, Ed

Box 44, folder 13

Neural Neet Approach (Connectionism) 1987-1996

Scope and Contents note

Many articles

Box 44, folder 14

Game Programs (General) 1998

Scope and Contents note

Just 1 page, pointer to SA special on mind

Box 44, folder 15

Bridge Program undated

Scope and Contents note

1 photocopy of bridge article, that computer programs can't play bridge well

Box 44, folder 16

Computer Simulations 1989

Scope and Contents note

1 article, from Discover magazine, Oct. 1989

Box 44, folder 17

Computer Crime (& Sabatage) 1976-1999

Scope and Contents note

Lots of articles, on crime, viruses, worms, etc.

Box 44, folder 18

Optical Computers 1989-1998

Scope and Contents note

Several articles

Box 45, folder 1

"Virtual Reality" - Cyberspace 1989-1993

Scope and Contents note

Lots of popular artticles, about virtual reality, art, Jaron Lanier, "Neuromancer", etc

Box 45, folder 2

Hypertext 1992-1993

Scope and Contents note

Several newspaper articles

Box 45, folder 3

DNA Computing 1995-1996

Scope and Contents note

More articles.

Journal of Chaos and Graphics, Vol. 2, Aug, 1987, Ed. by Clifford Pickover.

Box 28, folder 2

Chaos Theory [3 of 3] 1987-1998

Scope and Contents note

More articles.

Box 28, folder 3

Amygdala [1 or 2] 1987-1990

Scope and Contents note

Issues 1-19

Correspondents:

Silver, Roland

Box 28, folder 4

Amygdala [2 or 2] 1987-1990

Scope and Contents note

Slides from Amygdals issues (incomplete).

Box 28, folder 5

Fractal Rep-Tiles (Ammann) 1976-1979

Scope and Contents note

16 Examples.

Correspondents:

Ammann, Robert

Giles, Jack

Box 28, folder 6

Pickover's Work (Chaos) 1987-1992

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Pickover, Clifford

Box 28, folder 7

Mandelbrot Set 1985-1999

Scope and Contents note

Many articles and ads

"Six Worlds" (in Turbo Pascal): Dysan 5 inch floppy disk

Correspondents:

Dewdney, A.K.

Box 28, folder 8

Quasi-Fractals (TTT & Sheffer Stroke) 2000

Scope and Contents note

1 article, by Ian Stewart, from S.A. Aug, 2000.

Game Problems

Physical Description: 9 folder(s)

Box 32, folder 1

Shannon Switches 1996

Scope and Contents note

1 article (by Mansfield)

Box 32, folder 2

Klemperer's Games (Chess Tracks) 1948-1983

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Klemperer, Wolfgang

Bynum, Jim

Bolbus, Leonard

Box 32, folder 3

Glass's Toroidal TTT (& Peak, Pass, Deep Theorem) 11972-1973

Scope and Contents note

"A Combinatorial Analogue of the Poincare Index Theorem", by Leon Glass, 1973 (typescript)

Correspondents:

Glass, Leon

Box 32, folder 4

Near-Sighted Hunter 1979

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Reynolds, Robert

Harris, John

Box 32, folder 5

Conway's "Sylver Coinage" Game 1966-1987

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Guy, Richard

Silber, Robert

Box 32, folder 6

Beanstalk & Conway's Beans-Don't-Talk 1986

Scope and Contents note

Article by Guy

Box 32, folder 7

Take-Away (Nim-like) Games [1 of 3] 1955-1976

Scope and Contents note

Many examples, much analysis

Correspondents:

McAllister, Stephen

Filman, Robert

Cook, R.S.

Mertz, Robert

Silverman, David

Parkin, Robert

Hein, Piet

Box 32, folder 8

Take-Away (Nim-like) Games [2 of 3] 1967-1986

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Melf, Frank

Isaacs, Rufus

Hoggatt, Vernon

Lenstra, H.W.

Sibert, William

Fulves, Karl

Guy, Richard

Box 32, folder 9

Take-Away (Nim-like) Games [3 of 3] 1982-2000

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Fraenkel, Aviezri

Game Theory

Physical Description: 8 folder(s)

Box 31, folder 8

Parrando's Paradox 1980?

Scope and Contents note

Single newspaper article

Box 31, folder 9

Prisoner's Dilemma 1967-2000

Scope and Contents note

Many articles

Correspondents:

Verhoeff, Tom

Box 31, folder 10

Game Theory 1955-2000

Scope and Contents note

Many articles

Correspondents:

Fraenkel, Aviezri

Box 31, folder 11

Simple Games To Which Game Theory Applies 1959-1995

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Riker, William

Becker, Joseph

Box 31, folder 12

Game Theory Applications in S.S. & Ethics 1954-1982

Scope and Contents note

(S.S. = Social Sciences)

Box 31, folder 13

Games & Anthropology 1959-1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Roberts, John

Box 31, folder 14

Decision Theory 1953-2000

Scope and Contents note

Dollar auction

Supermarket paradox

Prisoners Dilemma

4 papers by Maya Bar-Hillel & Ruma Falk (1978-1980)

Correspondents:

Gale, David

Trigg, Charles

Brams, Steven

Woods, Donald

Lyons

Box 31, folder 15

Penny Pinch Paradox 1991

Graphs

Physical Description: 26 folder(s)

Box 21, folder 1

Digraphs (Directed) 1959-1992

Scope and Contents note

Directed graphs - MG notes.

"Equivalence of Topological Markov Shifts", by Ray Adlar et.al. (typescript).

"Networks of Sounds: Graph Theory Applied to Studying Rhymes", by James Joyce (typescript)

"Oedipus Loves His Mother", by Frank Harary, 1979 (typescript)

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Adler, Ray

Harary, Frank

Box 21, folder 2

Parallel Climbers 1995

Scope and Contents note

Single article by Alan Tucker

Box 21, folder 3

Graphs 1935-2002

Scope and Contents note

"One Dimensional Analysis Situs", by James Singer, Galois Lecture, 1935 (copy)

Many articles, notes, problems, etc.

"A Telephone Dialing Question", by Benjamin Schwartz, 1992 (typescript)

Correspondents:

Ragland, Earl

Box 21, folder 4

Path Tracing Puzzles 1961-1999

Scope and Contents note

Many puzzles.

Sam Loy's Chines Puzzles (Sam Loyd?) - from newpaper.

Correspondents:

Kim, Scott

Box 21, folder 5

Hamiltonian Paths & Circuits 1960-1991

Scope and Contents note

Mostly MG notes.

Correspondents:

Mullin, Ronald

Box 21, folder 6

My Hypercube Hamiltonian Path Puzzle 1985

Scope and Contents note

"The Spelling Superbee"

Box 21, folder 7

Graph Induction Program 1983

Scope and Contents note

INGRID: A Software Tool for Extremal Graph Theory; Research by Ronald Dutton & Robert Brigham (Primer and Users manual, and a compilation of results from the program.)

Box 21, folder 8

Utilities Problem 1975-1979

Scope and Contents note

Water, Gas, and Electricity problem (K3,3).

Mostly trying to track down the history of this problem.

Correspondents:

Federico, P.J.

Box 21, folder 9

Signed & Marked Graphs & Nets 1977-1983

Scope and Contents note

3 articles & pre-prints, by Frank Harary & others.

Box 21, folder 10

Perfect Tree Problem (Leech) 1974-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Leech, John

Taylor, Herbert

Hitotumatu, Sin

Box 21, folder 11

Packing Trees in Complete Graphs undated

Scope and Contents note

Single typescript about packing sequential stars & paths into a complete graph, by Honsberger.

Box 21, folder 12

Left-Right Paths 1973-1977

Scope and Contents note

Analysis by Joseph Malkevitch, and another by H. Shank

Correspondents:

Malkevitch, Joseph

Box 21, folder 13

Map Coloring of Independent Notes (or edges) 1962-1997

Scope and Contents note

Much Minty correspondence and papers, and some of his comments on other graph theorists.

Correspondents:

Minty, George

Box 21, folder 14

Graph Coloring 1961-1996

Scope and Contents note

3 papes (preprints) form Academy of Science of USSR, Siberian Branch, Institute of Mathematics, 1976: GT-5, GT-6, GT-7.

Game of Exchange.

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

White, Neil

Box 21, folder 15

Reconstruction Conjecture undated

Scope and Contents note

1 jpage MG notes.

Box 21, folder 16

Fraenkel's Directed Graph Games [1 of 2] 1974-1977

Scope and Contents note

Many papers by Aviezri Fraenkel, on games and their analysis.

Traffic Jam Games.

Correspondents:

Fraenkel, Aviezri

Box 21, folder 17

Fraenkel's Directed Graph Games [2 of 2] 1974-1984

Scope and Contents note

More papers.

Cannibals

Arrows

The Particles & Antiparticles Game

Box 22, folder 1

Rectangular Maps 1993

Scope and Contents note

1 article, by Colin Bell

Box 22, folder 2

Blanche Descartes 1978-1979

Scope and Contents note

Bibliography of her work

"The Twelve Coin Problem", a poem

Correspondents:

Steinberg, Richard

Box 22, folder 3

Harmonious Graphs 1980

Scope and Contents note

1 article, by Ron Graham & Neil Sloane

Box 22, folder 4

Slope Problems (Rob Jameson, Clemson) 1983-1984

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Jamison, Robert

Trigg, Charles

Box 22, folder 5

Random Graphs 1990-2000

Scope and Contents note

Articles, by Joyce Justicz, Edward Scheinerman & Peter Winkler; by Fan Chung; by Brian Hayes

Box 22, folder 6

Kuratowski's Theorem Generalized 1984-1987

Box 22, folder 7

Toothpick Problems 1986-1987

Box 22, folder 8

Orthogonal Trees 1991

Scope and Contents note

1 article, by Coxeter

Box 22, folder 9

Engel's "Spin Curves" 1993

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Engel, Douglas

Higher Dimensions

Physical Description: 9 folder(s)

Box 18, folder 1

Fourth & Higher Dimensions 1956-1997

Scope and Contents note

Lots of MG notes and references.

"Escaping Three Dimensional Thinking: Explorations in the Fourth Dimension", by Steve Johnson, Ben Shneiderman, Richard Steele, 1976 (typescript)

"The Rise of Higher Space", by Robert Muir Wood (synopsis & outline)

"Pebbling in Hypercubes", by Fan Chung (typescript)

Correspondents:

Shneiderman, Ben

Wood, Robert

Rucker, Rudy

Box 18, folder 2

4-Space in Theology & Occultism 1961-1974

Scope and Contents note

Lots of MG notes & references

"4D & Theology", MG summary of various 4D explanations

Box 18, folder 3

Computer Displays 1974-1986

Scope and Contents note

Several images of and articles about Tom Banchoff

Correspondents:

Schenck,, Hilbert

Box 18, folder 4

TTT Problem (Scott Kim) 1976

Scope and Contents note

About anti-tic-tac-toe (analysis by Scott Kim)

Box 18, folder 5

4-D in Physics 1946-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Bork, Alfred

Box 18, folder 6

The "Fake R-4" 1982

Scope and Contents note

An alternative 4-space discoverd, and it relationship to space-time (Michael Freedman's work)

Correspondents:

Renz, Peter

Stewart, Ian

Box 18, folder 7

Phase Spaces & Use Of 1995

Scope and Contents note

One article, from New Scientist (by Ian Stewart) (photocopy)

Box 18, folder 8

Hypersolids (Regular & Otherwise) 1961-2000

Scope and Contents note

Note from Leo Moser (on 1-D lengths in n-D cube)

Coxeter's classification of Zonahedra

Floppy Disk: 4D version 4.2, Rotations of 4D objects in 3 space, by Peter Turney

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Olshersky, George

Robertson, Douglas

Box 18, folder 9

Dean Zimmerman on 4-D 1997

Knots, Links

Physical Description: 24 folder(s)

Box 19, folder 2

References 1988-2001

Scope and Contents note

Lots of references (MG and others), as well as some articles and pamphlets about knots

Correspondents:

Hayes, Brian

Box 19, folder 3

Knots - General [1 of 2] 1978-1995

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Prat, Randall

Box 19, folder 4

Knots - General [2 of 2] 1960-1997

Scope and Contents note

Moebius strip turks-head knot (letter and model)

MG notes

Correspondents:

Brown, Ronald

Goetsch, Tim

Rolfsen, Dale

Box 19, folder 5

Knot Theory & Q.M. 1977-1997

Scope and Contents note

Few short articles on physics, quantum mechanics, etc, and knot theory

Box 19, folder 6

Borromean Rings undated

Scope and Contents note

MG "simpler presentation" of Borromean magic trick, along with original effect "Blink", by Terri Rogers

Box 19, folder 7

Knot Puzzles 1981-1999

Scope and Contents note

Dai Vernon "Rope Puzzle" magic trick

Correspondents:

Matsuyama, Mitsunobu

Box 19, folder 8

Ring & Rope Tricks [1 of 2] 1975-1976

Scope and Contents note

Clifton's Ring Move (pamphlet)

OffeRing, by Ron Vergilio (pamphlet)

"The Ring & Rope Book", by Philip Reed Willmarth (large booklet)

MG notes on tricks

Box 19, folder 9

Ring & Rope Tricks [2 of 2] 1952-1996

Scope and Contents note

MG notes on tricks

Many tricks

"Melt-Thru" by Harvey Rosenthal (booklet)

Box 19, folder 10

Knot & Link Magic Tricks [1 of 2] 1977-1996

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Futagawa, Shigeo

Matsuyama, Mitsunobu

Box 19, folder 11

Knot & Link Magic Tricks [2 of 2] 1987-1999

Scope and Contents note

"Knots on the Square", by Joseph Schmidt (booklet)

Box 20, folder 1

Louis Kauffman [1 of 3] 1995-1997

Scope and Contents note

Several articles by Kauffman

Correspondents:

Kauffman, Louis

Box 20, folder 2

Louis Kauffman [2 of 3] 1996-1998

Scope and Contents note

Knot tricks - handwritten & drawn by Kauffman

More articles

Correspondents:

Edwards, A.F.

Hu, Stephen

Box 51, folder 3

Edwards - On Venn 1988-1993

Scope and Contents note

"Ven Diagrams for Arbitrary Numbers of Sets", by A.W.F. Edwards (typescript)

Correspondents:

Edwards, A.W.F.

Box 51, folder 4

Foundos' Red/Grreen Device [1 of 2] 1980-1981

Scope and Contents note

Logic device & method by Stavros Foundos, called "Testrologic" (or "Testrolog"), he applies to making decisions in business ventures (using decision tree diagrams) - with patent (actual device in 3-D box)

Correspondents:

Foundos, Stavros

Box 51, folder 5

Foundos' Red/Grreen Device [2 of 2] 1980-1981

Box 51, folder 6

Joe Celko 1964-1965

Scope and Contents note

Much correspondance between MG & Joe Celko, about Celko's diagrams and physical abacus "SLABACUS", to solve logic problems. Also his National Science Fair paper "A Matrix Diagram For Symbolic Logic"

Correspondents:

Celko, Joe

Box 51, folder 7

Strict Implication 1951-1957

Scope and Contents note

MG notes (typed) about Strict Implication, mostly based on Lewis and Langford, and Carnap

Correspondents:

Lewis, C.I.

Box 51, folder 8

Stanhope 1952

Scope and Contents note

Photostat of article from Mind, 4/122, April 1879, on The Stanhope Demonstrator

Correspondents:

Carnap, Rudolf

Russell, Edward

Box 51, folder 9

Jevons 1951-1973

Scope and Contents note

Notes & articles about Jevons logic machine

Correspondents:

Mays, D.

Box 51, folder 10

Marquand 1953-1984

Scope and Contents note

MG notes on Allan Marquand

Photostats of "A New Logical Mahcine", by Allan Marquand, 1885, and other articles

Box 51, folder 11

Macaulay 1913

Scope and Contents note

Patent for logic machine

Box 51, folder 12

Pastore 1907-1951

Scope and Contents note

Notes & articles on Annibale Pastore

Correspondents:

Williams, Donald

Box 51, folder 13

Logic Cards 1951-1968

Scope and Contents note

Lots of versions of cards fro proving logic syllogisms, many by MG, and notes on others

Many examples (some in 3-D file)

Correspondents:

Cundy, Martyn

Moser, Leo

Box 52, folder 1

Syllogism Program "Lewis Carroll" 1979

Scope and Contents note

Article by Orlove

Box 52, folder 2

Electronic Syllogism Machines 1949-1976

Scope and Contents note

Article by Benjamin Burack, and some notes about an Electrical Logic Machine

Box 52, folder 3

Electric Logic Machines 1950-1975

Scope and Contents note

Many articles on various early logic machines

Box 52, folder 4

Kalin-Burkhart Machine 1956-1976

Scope and Contents note

MG notes on Kalin-Burkhart Logical-Truth Calculator, & pictures, & correspondance

Correspondents:

Burkhart, William

Kalin, Ted

Box 52, folder 5

Burroughs 1957

Scope and Contents note

Correspondance to get photos of the Burroughs Truth Function Evaluator (which uses Lukasiewicz' (Polish) notation)

Box 52, folder 6

Maron's Machine (1953 - not in book) 1953-1958

Scope and Contents note

3 articles by M.E. Maron on his machine for Sentential Calculus

Correspondents:

Maron, M.E.

Box 52, folder 7

Many-Valued Machines 1963-1974

Scope and Contents note

2 papers on models of multi-valued logic

Ads for 5th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, 1975

Box 52, folder 8

Minimizing Methods & Machines 1957-1977

Scope and Contents note

Minimizing Problem - to minimize Boolean functions, and therefor the number of relays in circuits

Veitsch Chart

Loomis' Grid

Flow Diagrams

Decision-accounts Table

Correspondents:

Nadler, Morton

Loomis, Lynn

Darwood, N.

Box 52, folder 9

Toy Computers (Cardboard, Think-A-Dot, Etc.) 1966-1994

Scope and Contents note

Mostly articles analyzing Think-A-Dot

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Box 52, folder 10

Martha Bertman's Cubes & Balls 1975-1981

Scope and Contents note

Cubes to simulate Boolean operations

Box 52, folder 11

Burk's History of Switches 1987

Scope and Contents note

"The History of Early Computer Switching", by Arthur W. Burks and Alice R. Burks, 42pp (typescript)

Correspondents:

Burks, Arthur

Box 52, folder 12

Mebane's 64 Syllogisms 1999-2000

Scope and Contents note

Articles on Christine Ladd-Franklin and her work on syllogistic logic, by I. Susan Russinoff

A syllogism chart, showing 64 possible syllogisms, 48 possibly valid, 24 actually valid, 12 "traditional", by Alexander Mebane

Correspondents:

Mebane, Alexander

Macmahon's Color Polygons

Physical Description: 4 folder(s)

Box 27, folder 1

Corner-Color Squares (Nitty-Gritty, Odier, etc) 1970-1984

Scope and Contents note

Duodomino, Nitty Gritty

Correspondents:

Philpott, Wade

Zimmerman, J.J.

Westerink, G.J.

Fink, Federico

Odier, Marc

Box 27, folder 2

Corner-Color Trangles (Odier) 1959-1975

Scope and Contents note

La Trioker

Patent applications for Marc Odier games.

Also various other related patents.

Correspondents:

Harris, John

Odier, Marc

Box 27, folder 3

Macmahon Color Hexagons 1971-1978

Scope and Contents note

Sets of hexagons to make edge-matched shapes, by L. Vossburgh Lyons, by Leslie Shader (XIX & CXX), and "Drive You Nuts".

Notes on Voz (L. Vosburgh Lyons) after his death.

Correspondents:

Prichodjko, Alexander

Philpott, Wade

Lyons, L. Vossburgh (Voz)

Box 27, folder 4

3D Forms undated

Scope and Contents note

Several edge matching 3D puzzles.

Correspondents:

Shader, Leslie

Magic Squares, Etc.

Physical Description: 23 folder(s)

Box 56, folder 4

Magic Squares - History and General [1 of 2] 1953-1976

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

"Fantasies in Figures, Mathematic Mysteries and Magic Squares", in Treasury of Folklore, by "Meloc" (Stanley Jackson Coleman), 1956 (mimeograph booklet)

"Report on Considerations Concerning Magic Squares and Their Use in Digital Design", by J.H. White, 38pp (mimeo, stapled)

Correspondents:

Laposky, Ben

Helbing, Edgar

Box 56, folder 5

Magic Squares - History and General [2 of 2] 1983-2000

Scope and Contents note

More notes, letters and articles on magic squares

Box 56, folder 6

Order-3 Square 1958-2001

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Puzzles based on order-3 squares

Articles, analyses, etc

Correspondents:

Trigg, Charles

Box 56, folder 7

Anti-Magic Squares 1965-1971

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Articles

Correspondents:

Mercer, Leigh

Box 56, folder 8

Order-4 Square (Diabolic) 1938-1998

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Articles

Pandiagonal magic squares (by Ollerenshaw)

Correspondents:

Walker, Robert

Sallows, Lee

Ollerenshaw, Kathleen

Box 56, folder 9

Durer's Melancholia undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Box 56, folder 10

Magic Square Magic Tricks 1942-1997

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

The Magic Square, Bert Allerton (simplified version, 1942)

The Magic Square, Phil Burns, 1956

Birthday Magic Squares, Max Katz, 1962

Patterns of Perfection, Sam Dalal, 1993

Some Stewart James predictions

The Ultimate Magic Square, by Christoph Wasshuber (Chris the Magician)

Box 56, folder 11

The Order-5 Square 1962-1975

Scope and Contents note

Program for counting order 5 magic squares: Bill Gosper, Richard Schroeppel, Michael Beeler, 1973

Box 57, folder 1

Orders > 5 (Squares) 1963-1997

Scope and Contents note

Franklin's Square

Pandiagonal Magic Squares of the Seventh Order (mimeo)

Other algorithms

Correspondents:

Ollerenshaw, Kathleen

Box 57, folder 2

The 32x32 Trimagic Square 1973-1976

Scope and Contents note

Material on it by William H. Benson

Correspondents:

Benson, William

Madachy, Joseph

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Klarner, David

Box 57, folder 3

Magic Stellated Dodecahedron 1976

Scope and Contents note

"Whitchcraft, or Perfect Magic Icosapentacles", by Bayard Wynne, 19pp (typescript)

Wynne calls the small stellated dodecahedron "Icosapentacles"

Box 57, folder 4

Magic Graphs 1964-1980

Scope and Contents note

Magic Octagons (French)

Various shapes and structures

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Trigg, Charles

Box 57, folder 5

Antimagic Triangles & Other Forms 1980-1981

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

3 articles by Charles Trigg (typescript)

Correspondents:

Trigg, Charles

Box 57, folder 6

Ennumeration of 6, 7, & 8 1966-1988

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Domergue, A.

Moldon, Alan

Montgomery, Coralie

Ulrich, E.J.

Roubicek, Juan

Seare, S.A.

Box 57, folder 7

Sallows' Complex 3x3 Squares 1996-1997

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Sallows, Lee

Box 57, folder 8

Magic Triangles 1957-1992

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Piersel, W.Guthrie

Trigg, Charles

Box 57, folder 9

Alphamagic (Lee Sallows) 1986-1997

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Sallows, Lee

Box 57, folder 10

Magic Hexagons (Aug/63) 1924-1992

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Much reader correspondance

Only 3rd order magic hexagons exist: proof

Magic Hexagon Puzzle - (in 3D box)

Correspondents:

Tapson, Frank

Adams, Clifford

Fabel, Karl

Trigg, Charles

Lindgren, Harry

Box 57, folder 11

Magic Rectangles 1998-2000

Scope and Contents note

2 articles by Hadedorn (typescript)

Summary & chapters from book by Gil Lamb

Couple of other articles

Correspondents:

Hadedorn, Thomas

Lamb, Gil

Box 57, folder 12

Other Types 1966-1994

Scope and Contents note

Magic Circles

The Missing Fifth (magic trick)

Correspondents:

Lyons, Vosburgh (VOZ)

Box 57, folder 13

Multiplying Squares 1963-1997

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

McKay, Angus

Box 57, folder 14

Magic Stars 1964-2002

Scope and Contents note

MG notes

Correspondents:

Graham, Arthur

Chadosch, Robert

Lindgren, Harry

Box 57, folder 15

Venn Diagrams 2000

Scope and Contents note

Bernardo Recaman on Magic Venn Diagrams

Correspondents:

Recaman, Bernardo

Maps

Physical Description: 7 folder(s)

Box 40, folder 1

4 Color Conjecture & Equivalents [1 of 2] 1959-1973

Scope and Contents note

References

Many articles

"Remarks on the Four Color Problem", by Morris E. Rill, 1969, U. of OK. Preprint 94

Correspondents:

Bernhart, Frank

Box 40, folder 2

4 Color Conjecture & Equivalents [2 of 2] 1957-1999

Scope and Contents note

More articles

Bibliography (from mid-1970's) by Bernhart

"Origins of Graph Theory - A History to 1900", by P.J. Federico, sections 20-25 (photocopies)

2 letters to 4-color proovers (that their proofs had mistakes)

Correspondents:

Mendelsohn, Nathan

Box 40, folder 3

Map & Set Coloring (Misc) 1957-1996

Scope and Contents note

Various articles on coloring maps, 2, 3, & 5 color theorems, etc.

MG list of map coloring puzzles & games

Correspondents:

Gunlock, Howard

Gale, David

Box 40, folder 4

Heawood's Conjecture 1890-1970

Scope and Contents note

"Soluotion of the Heawood Map-Coloring Problem", by Gerhard Ringel and J.N.T. Youngs, 1968 (typescript)

Box 40, folder 5

Spenser-Brown's 4-color "Proof" 1977-1978

Scope and Contents note

Work of G. Spenser-Brown

Some Comments on Alleged Proof by G. Spenser-Brown, by Frank Bernhart

Scott Kim - analysis of the proof

David Singmaster letter about Spenser-Brown lecture on his proof

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Wilson, Robin

Bernhart, Frank

Spenser-Brown, G.

Box 40, folder 6

Appel-Haken 1976 Proof of 4-Color Theorem 1976-1986

Scope and Contents note

Several popular and semi-technical articles and announcements about the proof

Correspondents:

Appel, Ken

Wilson, Robin

Box 40, folder 7

3-Color Map Problem 1992-1993

Scope and Contents note

Photo of Nat Friedman sculpture with trefoil knot hole

"The State of the Three Color Problem", by Richard Steinberg, 1992 (typescript)

Mathematicians (Alphabetical)

Physical Description: 71 folder(s)

Box 37, folder 10

Adelman, Leonard 1994

Scope and Contents note

1 article

Box 37, folder 11

Bankoff, Leon 1992

Box 37, folder 12

Ball, W.R.R. undated

Scope and Contents note

Biography & bibliography, by David Singmasster (typescript)

Box 37, folder 13

Bell, E.T. 1992-1993

Scope and Contents note

Outline, first page, and intro matter of poem "The Scarlet Night"

Correspondents:

Reid, Constance

Box 37, folder 14

Berlekamp 1994

Box 37, folder 15

Bennett, Chas. 1987-1992

Scope and Contents note

Various articles by Bannett, on Maxwell's Demon, Complexity, etc.

Box 37, folder 16

Bernoullis 1992

Scope and Contents note

Article, book revies on Bernoulli brothers

Box 37, folder 17

Bourbaki 1957-1976

Scope and Contents note

Several articles about Bourbaki

Some references (MG)

Box 37, folder 18

Cantor, G. 1988-1995

Scope and Contents note

Several articles on Cantor

Box 37, folder 19

Chung, Fan undated

Scope and Contents note

1 article

Box 37, folder 20

Cipra, Barry 1997

Scope and Contents note

1 short newpaper article

Correspondents:

Cipra, Barry

Box 37, folder 21

Benjamin, Arthur 1998

Scope and Contents note

1 article

Box 37, folder 22

Cartwright, Mary 1999

Scope and Contents note

1 article

Box 37, folder 23

Clifford undated

Scope and Contents note

W.K. Clifford: Life and Philosophy, aobut 52 pjages (typescript), ND, no author

"The Ethics of Belief", by W.K. Clifford, 5pp (photocopy)

Box 37, folder 24

Conway 1970-2001

Scope and Contents note

Many magazine and newspaper articles on Conway

2 long letters from Conway to MG

Correspondents:

Conway, John

Box 38, folder 1

Coxeter 1985-2001

Scope and Contents note

Several articles

Box 38, folder 2

Danzig, George 1994

Scope and Contents note

1 article

Box 38, folder 3

De Bruijn undated

Scope and Contents note

1 photo

Box 38, folder 4

Dewdney, Kee 1986-1987

Scope and Contents note

2 articles

Box 38, folder 5

Diaconis, Persi 1977-1990

Scope and Contents note

Many articles

Box 38, folder 6

Elkies, Noam 1997-1998

Scope and Contents note

2 articles

Box 38, folder 7

Erdos 1969-2000

Scope and Contents note

Many interviews with and articles about Erdos

Reviews of books about Erdos

Discussions of Erdos number

Box 38, folder 8

Euler undated

Scope and Contents note

Excerpt from book "Euler, The Master of us All", and article by Harary

Box 38, folder 9

Fisher, Irving undated

Scope and Contents note

1 article (book review of his biography, by Robert Allen)

Box 38, folder 10

Godel [1 of 3] 1962-2000

Scope and Contents note

References

Rotating Universe & Time Travel

Photocopy of "Godel Meets Einstein", by Palle Yourgrau, Open Court Press, 1999 (252 pages)

Some articles on Godels incompleteness theorem

Box 38, folder 11

Godel [2 of 3] 1954-1996

Scope and Contents note

Articles on Godel's imcompleteness theorem

MG notes on Godel's proof

Some biographical articles

Correspondents:

Chaitin, Greg

Rucker, Rudy

Box 38, folder 12

Godel [3 of 3] 1964-2000

Scope and Contents note

Several articles by Has Wang (a friend of Godel) on Godel

Several biographical articles

Articles about ideas stemming from Godel, and the Foundations of Mathematics

Correspondents:

Ulam, Stanislav

Box 38, folder 13

Goldberg, Michael 1990

Scope and Contents note

Letter from his son, Jefemy, plus short biography

Box 38, folder 14

Golomb 1996-2000

Scope and Contents note

Solomon golomb

USC article on Golomb's appointment ot Viterbi Chair in Communications

Golomb articles on Mathematics 40 years after Sputnik

Correspondents:

Golomb, Beatrice

Box 38, folder 15

Gosper 1995

Scope and Contents note

William Gosper

Letter from MG recommending Gosper for MacArthur Fellowship

Box 38, folder 16

Ron & NFan Graham 1981-1997

Scope and Contents note

Several articles on Ron Graham, one on Fan Chung Graham

Box 38, folder 17

Guy, Berlekamp, Selfridge 1993

Scope and Contents note

2 photos of the 3 of them, plus interview with Guy

Box 38, folder 18

Halmos 1980-1985

Scope and Contents note

"Applied Mathematics is Bad Mathematics", by Paul Halmos (typescript draft)

Interview

Correspondents:

Halmos, Paul

Box 38, folder 19

Harary 1993

Scope and Contents note

Extensive bibliography & Curriculum Vitae of Harary

Correspondents:

Harary, Frank

Box 38, folder 20

Huffman, David 1991

Scope and Contents note

1 profile (SA)

Box 38, folder 21

Kaczynski (Unibomber) undated

Scope and Contents note

List of 10 mathematical papers by Caczynski

Box 38, folder 22

Don Knuth 1960-2001

Scope and Contents note

Interview and many articles

Many Xmas cards

Potrzebie system

Many recreational mathematics references in letters

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Box 39, folder 1

Kraitchik 1957

Scope and Contents note

Obitury (in French)

Correspondents:

Kraitchic, Maurice

Box 39, folder 2

Kruskal, Martin 1993-1994

Scope and Contents note

2 short articles.

Box 39, folder 3

Lehrer, Tom 1997

Scope and Contents note

1 article (Math Horizens) with "That's Mathematics" words and music

Box 39, folder 4

Littlewood 1978-1996

Scope and Contents note

John E. Littlewood

Several articles & reviews (of "Littlewood's Miscellany")

Box 39, folder 5

Liberi's Course in RM (& Others) 1974-1984

Scope and Contents note

Sevearl outlines for a course in recreational mathematics taught by Albert Liberi in New York

Correspondents:

Moore, Charles

Liberi, Albert

Box 39, folder 6

Scott Morris 1987

Scope and Contents note

1 newspaper article

Box 39, folder 7

Leo Moser 1959-1972

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence & notes about a proposed book by Moser and MG on mathematical humor.

Reprints of various Moser problems

Correspondents:

Moser, William

Moser, Leo

Stover, Mel

Box 39, folder 8

John Nash 1994-2001

Scope and Contents note

Several newspaper & magazine articles on Nash, boht his Nobel Prize and teh book about him.

(Also Kaczynski, the Unibomber, & Erdos books)

Box 39, folder 9

Pedoe, Dan 1998

Scope and Contents note

1 article (autobiography from College Mathematics Journal)

Box 39, folder 10

Wade Philpott 1985

Scope and Contents note

2 letters, about his death

Box 39, folder 11

Pickover, Cliff 1991-1999

Scope and Contents note

Much correspondence between MG and Pickover, about his books & blurbs for them.

Several book reviews.

Correspondents:

Pickover, Clifford

Box 39, folder 12

Poincare 1999

Scope and Contents note

2 book reviews ("Poincare and the Three Body Problem")

1 biography, photocopied from "Golden Age of Science"

Box 39, folder 13

Richards, Dana 1986-1989

Scope and Contents note

Curriculum Vita, letter of recommendation (by MG)

Various articles by Richards

Box 39, folder 14

Robinson, Julia & Constance Reid 1992-1996

Scope and Contents note

2 articles

Box 39, folder 15

Rogers, Douglas 1998

Scope and Contents note

2 letters from Rogers to MG, & 1 reply

Correspondents:

Rogers, Douglas

Box 39, folder 16

Rota 1997

Scope and Contents note

1 article

Box 39, folder 17

Rucker, Rudy 1982-1999

Scope and Contents note

Much correspondence

Correspondents:

Rucker, Rudy

Box 39, folder 18

Doris Schattschneider 1990

Scope and Contents note

1 picture & short biography

Box 39, folder 19

Sloane, Neil 1990

Scope and Contents note

2 articles & picture

Box 39, folder 20

Smale 1984-1999

Scope and Contents note

2 articles & book review

Box 39, folder 21

Smullyan, Raymond 1978-1994

Scope and Contents note

1 article (Smithsonian) & a little correspondence

Correspondents:

Smullyan, Raymond

Box 39, folder 22

Steuben, Mike 1984

Scope and Contents note

1 short article (Discover)

Box 39, folder 23

Ian Stewart 1992

Scope and Contents note

Stewart's prefance to one of his books, and MG introduction

Box 39, folder 24

Sylvester 1987-1997

Scope and Contents note

3 articles (technical)

"The Laws of Verse, or Principles of Versification", by J.J.Sylvester, 1870(152 photocopied pages)

Box 39, folder 25

Tarski, Alfred 1991-1999

Scope and Contents note

Photocopy frm "From Dedekind to Godel" on Tarski

2 articles (M. INtellegencer)

Box 39, folder 26

Tukey, John Wilder 2002

Scope and Contents note

1 article (Notices of AMS)

Box 39, folder 27

Ulam 1981-1990

Scope and Contents note

Interview (2-year CMJ)

Long biography by Gian-Carlo Rota (1987)

Couple of articles

Box 39, folder 28

Van der Waerden 1997

Scope and Contents note

1 article, Notices of AMS

Box 39, folder 29

Von Neumann 1964-1998

Scope and Contents note

Many articles

"The Legend of John Von Neumann", by P.R. Halmos, 1973 (reprint)

Photocopy of "Procedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Vol. 50" on The lLegacy of John von Neumann, 1990 (10 articles)

Box 39, folder 30

Wang, Hao 1996

Scope and Contents note

1 article, form "Godel '96"

Box 39, folder 31

Weil, Andre 1998-1999

Scope and Contents note

Obituary

1 short article

Box 39, folder 32

Wiener, Norbert 1995

Scope and Contents note

Several articles

Box 39, folder 33

Wolfram, Stephen undated

Scope and Contents note

Several newspaper articles

Box 39, folder 34

Women 1965-1996

Scope and Contents note

Several articles on women in mathematics in general

Some articles on gender in math

Sophie Germain article (form Sci. Am.)

Ruth Lawrence (short, from Time)

Mazes

Physical Description: 6 folder(s)

Box 22, folder 10

Adrian Fisher Mazes 1986-1999

Scope and Contents note

Many articles by and about Adrian Fisher, including several copies of his "Maze News"

MG introduction for Fisher's book (typescript)

Box 22, folder 11

Maze Solving Techniques 1957-1997

Scope and Contents note

Chemical method (Science News article)

Several articles of mathematical methods (2 in French)

Correspondents:

Lee, C.Y.

Abbott, Robert

Box 22, folder 12

Maze Books 1970-1989

Scope and Contents note

MG report on out-of-print maze books (for Dover)

Many book reviews and newspaper articles

Correspondents:

Brightfield, Rick

Ransom, Tom

Box 22, folder 13

Mazes 1962-2001

Scope and Contents note

Lots of mazes!

MG letter (to Judy-Lynn del Rey) with detailed 3-D maze suggestion

Correspondents:

Friedman (Efjif, Inc)

Eliot, William

Pegg, Ed Jr.

Box 22, folder 14

Outdoor Mazes 1981-1994

Scope and Contents note

Articles, pictures, a little history

Box 22, folder 15

Bob Abbott 1988-1995

Scope and Contents note

Manuscripts & original drawings of some of Abbott's mazes

Correspondents:

Abbott, Robert

Mechanical Puzzles

Physical Description: 23 folder(s)

Box 62, folder 1

Mechanical Puzzles [1 of 3] 1900-1990

Scope and Contents note

Many descriptions of mechanical puzzles, mostly in catalogs, and a few magazine articles

"The Ego Activation Method", by Melvin Weiner, 1980 (reprint), using puzzles as part of psychotheropy

Strand Magazine articele(1900) on "Chinese Puzzles, Tricks, and Traps, by James Scott

Yashimoto Cube, Nos. 1,2,3 (descriptions, 1971)

Polygonzo, 1990 (Howard Jay Fleischer)

Puzzle World #3, by Dale Overy

Puzzletts

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Overy, Dale

Dalgety, James

Van Delft, Pieter

Coffin, Stewart

Singmaster, David

Box 62, folder 2

Mechanical Puzzles [2 of 3] 1990-1995

Scope and Contents note

More puzzle descriptions, in catalogs and articles

IDI (I.Q. Development Institute, Ewe Meffert, 1990

Interlocking Puzzles

World Puzzle Congress (Zagreb, 1991) announcement & program

Bill Cutler

Magic Cubes 1991, Christoph Bandelow

Gantt's Wood Things

Ishi Press

General Symmetrics, Inc (Doug Engel)

Box 62, folder 3

Mechanical Puzzles [3 of 3] 1994-2002

Scope and Contents note

Tim's Toy Report, Nos. 2,3,4, 2994

Various catalogs

Short articles on: Spinout, Double Dovetail, Japanese Secret Box, Frank Armbrusster, Panex Puzzle, Reversible Nesting Box

"Ruan Liuqi, The Ingenious Puzzle Craftsman of Suzhou", by Wei Zhang & Peter Rasmussen, 1998, 9pp (booklet)

Box 62, folder 4

Stewart Coffin [1 of 2] 1970-1977

Scope and Contents note

Puzzle News: 1979

Catalog sheets & Brochures: 1972, 1971, 1977

Puzzle descriptions: Nova, Seven Woods, Spider Slider, Star, Cuckoo Nest, Locked Nest (with pictureA), Pin Hole

Puzzle Craft: Vol 1, No. 1; No 2; No 3; No 4; No 5; No 6

Box 62, folder 5

Stewart Coffin [2 of 2] 1978-1991

Scope and Contents note

Puzzle Craft (combined reprint) (1978) ; also 1981, parts I, II, and Supplement, 1985

2 fine Woodworking articles (1979, 1984)

Puzzle descriptions: Six-Piece Burr, Burr #305, Cornucopia

Catalog sheets: 1981

"Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissection", by Stewart Coffin (Rough draft, 1986)

Correspondents:

Coffin, Stewart

Box 62, folder 6

Jerry Slocum 1955-1995

Scope and Contents note

Article from Jeux & Strategie (in Frenceh) (photocopy) - about Jerry Slocum

"Making and Solving Puzzles, by Jerry Slocum, 1955

Article from Science & Mechanics Magazine

Compendium of Mechanical Puzzles From Catalogs, by Jerry Slocum, 1977 (Just the intro anf references)

Several diagrams of various burr puzzles

Correspondents:

Slocum, Jerry

Duffy, Mike

Box 62, folder 7

The LA PUzzle Exhibit 1984-1986

Scope and Contents note

"Puzzles Old and New", at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1986-1987

Printout of orientation panels

NEH application for grant

Box 62, folder 8

Rubik's Cube & Other Rubik Items 1986-1995

Scope and Contents note

2 articles on solving (cube and clock)

Some ads for other items

Box 62, folder 9

Pyraminx 1981

Scope and Contents note

MG notes on solutions of various patterns

A 14 page analysis of Pyraminx, nd, possible by Turner-Smith

Disclosure document to patent office, for Impossible Polyhedron, an invention by James Pearce, with photographs. (Seems to be an Impossiball.)

Box 63, folder 1

Pentangle Line 1972-1988

Scope and Contents note

A few Pentangle catalogs & sales sheets

Correspondents:

Dalgety, James

Box 63, folder 2

Orb-It 1981-1982

Scope and Contents note

MG intro to Warnecks book on Orb-It (photocopy)

Correspondents:

Werneck, Tom

Box 63, folder 3

Tom Ransom Project 1977-1978

Scope and Contents note

Correspondance about possible book

Correspondents:

Ransom, Tom

Box 63, folder 4

T.Q. Rowett 1984-1998

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

Rowett, Timothy

Box 63, folder 5

Phoney Baloney 1970-1971

Scope and Contents note

Correspondents:

O'Beirne, Thomas

Bernhart, Frank

Box 63, folder 6

NYC Rec. Math Shop (?) 1939-1980

Scope and Contents note

Math-E-Magics - the store where Math is Fun

Box 63, folder 7

Japanese Puzzles 1990-1993

Scope and Contents note

2 Toyo Glass calendars

Puzzletopia No. 11 (from Nob Yoshigahara)

Catalogs from Puzzland, Kikimi, Toyo Glass, Matsuya Ginza, Ishi Press

Some interviews with Nob Yoshigahara

Box 63, folder 8

Joel Langer's Wire Knots 1981-1983

Scope and Contents note

Why Knots

Correspondents:

Langer, Joel

Box 63, folder 9

Sam Cornwall 1994

Scope and Contents note

Photos & stories of his puzzles

Correspondents:

Cornwall, Sam

Box 63, folder 10

Bill Cutler 1994-1995

Scope and Contents note

Some puzzle designs, and some catalogs

Correspondents:

Cutler, William

Box 63, folder 11

Puzzle Cards undated

Scope and Contents note

Photocopies

Box 63, folder 12

Poly-Spheres - Tut's Tomb - Anagog undated

Scope and Contents note

MG notes of Tut's Tomb (Mag-Nif)

Instructions & solutions (photocopy) of Anagog (by Piet Hein)

Box 63, folder 13

Wire Puzzles 1991-1993

Scope and Contents note

"Analysis of ring Puzzles", by Richard Hess, 4"x5", bound, 1993

Perry Horton catlog (with drawings), 1991

Tavern Puzzles

Photocopy of other mwire puzzles (Richard Hess?)

Box 63, folder 14

Loony Loop 1968-1993

Scope and Contents note

Puzzle history, and some photocopies of old catalogs with it

Controversy over who invented it

Correspondents:

Knuth, Donald

Swinford, Paul

James, Stewart

Sutton, C.R.

Armbruster, Frank

Neale, Robert

Conway, John

Dyckman, Howard

Misc. Math

Physical Description: 12 folder(s)

Box 66, folder 10

Math Bibliography for NYR 1987-1990

Scope and Contents note

Various versions of bibliography for mathematics books, as wwell as one for computers and artificial intelligence books

Correspondents:

Schaaf, William

Box 66, folder 11

The "New Math" 1958-1984

Scope and Contents note

Lots of articles about the New Math, for and against

Correspondents:

Page, David

Box 67, folder 1

Strens Collection 1983-1986

Scope and Contents note

(Sallows letters: see Pangram folder, 2/65/7

Correspondents:

Strens, Pascal

Sallows, Lee

Knuth, Donald

Guy, Richard

Box 67, folder 2

Sets, Metamath, Etc. 1958-1968

Scope and Contents note

Several articles about mathematics itself, and how to organize its parts

Set theory

Box 67, folder 3

Foundations (Schools) [1of2] 1961-1989

Scope and Contents note

Many technical papers and articles on foundations of mathematics, particularly constructionist (intuitionism), axiomatics (formalism), logicism, etc.

Box 67, folder 4

Foundations (Schools) [2of2] 1988-1998

Scope and Contents note

More articles

"Randomness in Arithmetic and the Decline and Fall of Reductionism in Pure Mathematics", by G.J. Chaitin, 1992 (lecture transcript)

Box 67, folder 5

Nomograms & Triangle-Square Dissection 1943-1965

Scope and Contents note

Some articles on nomogramphs and nomograms

Dudeneys triangle to square dissection

Box 67, folder 6

Operations Research 1957-1971

Scope and Contents note

Articles, mostly popular

Box 67, folder 7

Baywood Series 1978

Scope and Contents note

Preliminary plans for books based on Journal of Recreational Mathematics

Correspondents:

Schwartz, Benjamin

Box 67, folder 8

Math & Postage Stamps 1963-1982

Scope and Contents note

Some articles, some pictures, some stamps (with mathematical content)

Also a couple of articles on stamp errors

Box 67, folder 9

How to Catch a Lion 1968-1973

Scope and Contents note

2 articles on mathematical methods of big game hunting

Box 67, folder 10

Pure vs. Applied 1997

Scope and Contents note

Typescript of Golomb's talk "Mathematics Forty Years After Sputnik"

Correspondents:

Golomb, Solomon

Misc. Problems

Physical Description: 35 folder(s)

Box 40, folder 8

Words & Letters 1974-1998

Scope and Contents note

Kangaroo Words

Strike-Outs

Much from Word Ways magazine, and from Games Magazine

Lots of small word puzzles and games

Correspondents:

Woods, Donald

Browne, Owens Hand

Swinford, Paul

Box 40, folder 9

Quickies [1 of 2] 1964-1983

Scope and Contents note

Many short problems, from various sources and correspondence.

3 sets of problems, from Hollard T. Croft: "Problems" (Mostly Geometrical )(1964), "Research Problems" (1967), and "Addenda" (1969)

Correspondents:

Lindberg, Gene

Ransom, Tom

Box 40, folder 10

Quickies [2 of 2] 1972-1983

Scope and Contents note

Guide to the Martin Gardner papers SC0647