2022 CoM Events

Dividing the circle, a problem for both mathematicians and artists
The problem of dividing the circle in equal parts has accompanied the history of mathematics, with contributions ranging from Euclid to Gauss. The problem was also addressed by artists such as Dürer, with different motivations and points of view. In this talk we will briefly overview a few of these contributions, and see how some 20th century artwork has even taken this topic as one of its central themes.

Pedro Freitas has a PhD in mathematics, is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and a member of the Interuniversity Center for the History and Philosophy of Sciences. His teaching and research are mainly related to the history of mathematics, recreational mathematics and relations between mathematics and art – in particular, he has been collaborating for some years in the study of the geometric work of Almada Negreiros. He is also involved in mathematical outreach.

Various activities: puzzles, fluid dynamics in the aorta, cosmic, tessellations, soap films, geometry hidden in playing cards, machine learning, cosmic sounds and more.

We plan to host groups of high school students.

Mining the Soma Cube for Gems: Isomorphic Subgraphs Reveal Equivalence Classes
Soma cubes are an example of a dissection puzzle, where an object is broken down into pieces, which must then be reassembled to form either the original shape or some new design. In this paper, we present some interesting discoveries regarding the Soma Cube. Equivalence classes form aesthetically pleasing shapes in the solution set of the puzzle. These gems are identified by subgraph isomorphisms using SNAP!/Edgy, a simple block-based computer programming language. Our preliminary findings offer several opportunities for researchers from middle school to undergraduate to utilize graphs, group theory, topology, and computer science to discover connections between computation and geometric patterns.

Edward Vogel is a child of the 60s and a US Navy veteran, where he lived out his snide remark “no, an engineer on a boat” to a doubtful high school math teacher. Largely self educated in electrical engineering and mathematics he lives in Minneapolis working in medical device R&D by day and STEM/Arts education nights and weekends.

This weekly meeting of the Santa Barbara Math Ellipse is devoted to Martin Gardner.  (See  santabarbaramathellipse.org/elem/lower/schedule.html)

At our Celebration of Mind event in Ljubljana, Slovenia, we will celebrate the birthday and legacy of Martin Gardner with polyhedra, fractals, generative art, optical illusions, and other bewilderments. We’ll also create a portrait of Martin Gardner out of letters.

Celebration of Mind 2021

honoring Martin Gardner
October 23-24, 2021,
at Ye Olde Gamery
Maryland Renaissance Festival

Martin Gardner was one of the most beloved personalities in the areas of recreational mathematics, magic, and puzzles. The influence of his work is immeasurable.

He was the author of more than 65 books and countless articles, ranging over the fields of science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and conjuring. His best-selling book was The Annotated Alice, an analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, followed by a sequel, More Annotated Alice. He wrote two novels—The Flight of Peter Fromm and Visitors from Oz. His Scientific American columns are collected in fifteen volumes. No-Sided Professors is a collection of his short fiction.

Martin inspired and enlightened three generations of readers with the delights of mathematical recreations, the amazing phenomena of numbers, magic, and puzzles, the play of ideas. It was Martin’s article on pentominoes in 1957 that popularized this set of shapes and led, through an amazing series of events, to the founding of Kadon Enterprises, Inc. We hold him and his life’s work in a very special place of reverence.

We were honored when Martin offered us the opportunity to design and produce the two games he had created—The Game of Solomon and Lewis Carroll’s Chess Wordgame, the latter based on a note in Lewis Carroll’s diaries.

Martin Gardner was born October 21, 1914, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of a geologist and oil producer. He graduated at the University of Chicago in 1936 with a major in philosophy. He lived and wrote for many years in New York. He and his wife, Charlotte, eventually moved to the western mountains of North Carolina, where Kate had the honor and pleasure of visiting them. Martin returned to Norman, Oklahoma, in 2004, his 90th year. He continued to write until his death on May 22, 2010, at the age of 95. There is an excellent entry about Martin on the Wikiverse website, part of Wikipedia.

A biennial celebration of Martin Gardner’s life and work has been held in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1994, founded by Tom Rodgers, a businessman and puzzle collector. Martin himself attended the first gathering. Since then, the Gathering for Gardner (G4G) continues to be an invitation-only get-together for mathematicians, magicians, and puzzlers who enjoy sharing their work and play inspired by Martin’s writings.

Tom Rodgers, before his untimely death, established the Gathering for Gardner Foundation (http://gathering4gardner.org/about/) as a central organization for continuing these biennial events and for the annual Celebration of Mind (http://celebrationofmind.org/celebration-of-mind/) birthday tributes for Martin held every October 21 in dozens of countries. Martin’s memory and inspiration live on.

We continue to commemorate his life and his achievements with annual Celebration of Mind themes of our own at Ye Olde Gamery, our pavilion at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. The Festival runs for nine weekends, and its final weekend is on or around Martin’s birthday.

For more information about our connection with Martin Gardner, see:
www.gamepuzzles.com/kadon.htm#g4g
www.gamepuzzles.com/kadon.htm#gcom
www.gamepuzzles.com/martin.htm
www.gamepuzzles.com/histfun.htm#GS
www.gamepuzzles.com/histfun.htm#LC

©2022 Kadon Enterprises, Inc. www.gamepuzzles.com

Interesting talks and tables with activities with recreational mathematics, puzzles, magic, origami, games, and a lot more

In this year meeting there will be talks about games, puzzles, recreational mathematics, and much more.

Also there will be different activities as games, puzzles, magic, origami, chess, go, othello, board games, sciences, and much more

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The Carthage College Psi Chi Honors
Society and the Department of Psychological Science are pleased to present the 7^th
annual Martin Gardner Celebration of Mind on Saturday,
November 12^th from 1:00-3:00pm

Every fall, people
around the world gather to honor the legacy of magician, mathematician,
skeptic, puzzler, Lewis Carroll scholar, and science writer, Martin
Gardner. This year’s Celebration
of Mind will take on a new form: “Martin’s
Amazing Race!”

Teams of four from
Carthage student organizations will compete in a scavenger hunt, solving
puzzles, completing physical challenges, and testing their wits. Prizes will be awarded to the top three
teams. The top team’s student organization will win a pizza party!

The hunt will begin and
end in the Straz Atrium. While teams will be traversing campus to complete the
challenges, an audience will cheer on the teams through video feeds displayed
on the video wall of the Straz Atrium. The audience will also have the opportunity
to try their hands at the challenges teams are facing. Other student org
members are invited to support their representatives!