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Schedule
Bob Hearn — G4G12 Schedule
Art
Vladimir Bulatov — 3D Printed Fractal Pendant
Vladimir Bulatov — Making Fractal Pendant in ShapeJS
Mark Burstein and Jim Gardner — Cover Drawing
Gwen Fisher — Topologically Interesting Felt
Pedro Jorge Freitas and Simão Palmeirim Costa — Almada Negreiros and the Geometric Canon
Lew Goldklang — Head Lines
George Hart and Elizabeth Heathfield — Making Math Visible
Fred Henle — Space-Filling Curves on Non-Periodic Tilings
Margaret Elizabeth Kepner — A Year of Pentomino Tilings
James Lee — Menger Sponge in Mathematica
Alexa Meade — Up Down Coin
Alexa Meade — Double Take
Robert Orndorff— Folding Method for “OSU Triptych No. 2”
Norton Starr — Greek Cross Puzzle
Games
Kate Jones — Celebration of Mind 2015
Kate Jones — Gamepuzzles!
William Liles — Fair Poker with Marked Cards
Robert Morrill and Yunhao Fu — Black or White
Magic
Hirokazu Iwasawa — Magic Math Puzzles
Doron Levy — Two Person Telepathy
Math
Adam Atkinson — The Samaritani Formula – More Details
Nancy Blachman — Saint Mary’s Math Contest Qualifying Problems
Kenneth Brecher — The “PhiTop”: A Golden Ellipsoid
Paul Clarke — Breaking Squares and Cubes
Jill Cochran, Eric McDowell and Ron Taylor — Roots of Polynomials with Fibonacci Coefficients
Stephen Fenner, William Gasarch, Charles Glover and Semmy Purewal — On the Border Between Recreational and “Serious” Mathematics
Susan Goldstine — Hexalfexagons and the Other Feynman Diagrams
Richard Guy — The Leaning Tower of Pingala
Akio Hizume — Fibonacci Pavilion
Calvin Hurlbert and Glenn Hurlbert — Storming the Castle
Glenn Hurlbert — The Composer
Louis Kauffman — Two Math Fables
Louis Kauffman — The Quaternion Demonstrator
Tanya Khovanova — Thinking Inside and Outside the Box
Robert Munafo — Analogue Approximation Finder
Eleftherios Pavlides, Thomas Banchoff and Sarah Thompson — Hinge-elastegrity’s Shape-shifting
Tomas Rokicki and Gil Dogon — Larger Golomb Rulers
Michael Tanoff — Philatelic 12s for G4G12
John J. Watkins — Trapezoids, Primes, and Cousins
Colin Wright — The Doodle Theorem
Legacy
Jeremiah Farrell — Paul Swinford — a Tribute
Jeremiah Farrell — A Special Tribute to Martin Gardner
Karen Farrell and Jeremiah Farrell — Kate Jones — a Tribute
Kate Jones — Twelveness
Kate Jones — The Playable Art of Kate Jones
Louis Kauffman — Self-Description
Colm Mulcahy — Martin Gardner’s little known collaborations with Paul Erdös & Nicolas Bourbaki
Peter Renz — Martin Gardner and Scientific American
Dana Richards — Juvenilia
Puzzles
George Bell — A 12-Loop 4 G4G12
Nancy Blachman — A Sample of Mathematical Puzzles
David Cohen — 12 Flower Puzzle
Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine — Secret Messages in Juggling and Card Shuffling
Yossi Elran — The 100 Prisoners Puzzle Revisited
Jeremiah Farrell — A New 12-Puzzle
Andrea Gilbert — Six “Step-over” Logic Mazes
Markus Goetz — Mini Folding Puzzles
Chaim Goodman-Strauss — Table Tiling
Bill Gosper and Neil Bickford— Bill & Neil’s Ill-fated Space-Cube Gift
Rik van Grol — Speed Cubing
Emrehan Halici — Five Problems
George Hart — Hinge-a-Tron
Bob Hearn — A Trio of Coin-Jumping Puzzles
Dick Hess — Double Dummy Problems
Carl Hoff — Abstract
Carl Hoff — Wrap O-round Weave 5, or WOW5
Carl Hoff — Carl’s Puzzles
Wei-Hwa Huang — Masyu and Yin-yang Puzzles
Peter Knoppers — Martin Gardner Modular Origami G4G12 Rhombic Dodecahedron – Abstract
Peter Knoppers — Martin Gardner Modular Origami G4G12 Rhombic Dodecahedron – 12 Sheets
Robert Lang — DeZZ Unit
Roy Leban — Cubes for G4G12
David Leschinsky — Eureka’s General Thinking Processing Chart
Daniel Levy — Perplexing Puzzle Poem in Pentameter
George Miller and Nick Baxter — The Mystery of The Calibron Twelve Block Puzzle
Chris Morgan and Jeremiah Farrell — The White Rabbit 12-Puzzle
Stuart Moskowitz — Which Man Disappears?
Pradeep Mutalik — How Puzzles Made Us Human
Pradeep Mutalik — The Sleeping Beauty Paradox Resolved
Erika B. Roldan and Martinez I. Pérez — The Mutando of Insanity
David Singmaster — About Puzzle Grills
Hideki Tsuiki — 3D Sudoku and 4D Sudoku
Ryuhei Uehara — Jangrams, Polygons Folding to Three Boxes
Frans de Vreugd — Incredible 18 Piece Burrs
Science
Shannon Lieb and Jeremiah Farrell — The Jing and Jang of Quantum Physics Truth Tables