80 Years of Gardner Magic

The magician and historiam Max Maven poignantly eulogized Martin Gardner in his article In Memoriam in the July 2010 issue of GENII magazine. Commenting on the diverse interests of Gardner in non-fiction, puzzles, recreational mathematics, philosophy, games, skepticism, word play and magic, Maven noted: So far as is known, the final Gardner publication during his lifetime was a magic trick that he contributed to the May 2010 issue of Word Ways, a quarterly journal with a small but fervent readership. I will mention, without humility, that the trick was based on one of mine -- which in turn was based on one of Martin\u27s

Nightmares

Jeremiah\u27s puzzle Nightmare , which was exchanged at the 2013 Washington, DC International Puzzle Party. 100 puzzle designers create 100 copies of their puzzle and pass it out at the party and exchange them. This puzzle was a special puzzle gift that was given to IPP32 exchangers by its designer, Jerry Farrell, in memory of longtime IPP member, Tom Rodgers, Jr

The Farrell-Hsiang method revisited

We present a sufficient condition for groups to satisfy the Farrell-Jones Conjecture in algebraic K-theory and L-theory. The condition is formulated in terms of finite quotients of the group in question and is motivated by work of Farrell-Hsiang.Comment: This version is different from the published version. A number of typos and an incorrect formula for the transfer before Lemma 6.3 pointed out by Holger Reich have been correcte

…for Franklin fanciers

Crossword Puzzle featured on page 82 of the October, 1980 edition of the Saturday Evening Post

Geography

Jeremiah Farrell\u27s crossword puzzle titled Geography with answer page, which was a contribution to the American Mensa Mind Games

Dr. Robinson\u27s Dictionary

It is said that you can tell a man by the books he reads. More so, then, by the books he writes. In the case of William J. Robinson (1869-1936), Ph.G., M.D., consider these works

Collector\u27s Corner, Round 5

Martin Gardner\u27s 300th article for Scientific American appeared in their August, 1998 issue (Cover: New Thinking about Back Pain). It\u27s title A Quarter-Century of Recreational Mathematics, highlights Gardner\u27s 297 Mathematical Games columns and his 1956 article on Hexaflexagons (he does not mention the 1952 article on Logic -- see Collector\u27s Corner -- Round 4)

Two Games Displayed by Butler’s 2017 Celebration of Mind

Jeremiah\u27s two games displayed by Butler\u27s 2017 Celebration of Mind

Singing in a new world: Scotland - hopeless schizophrenic or cosmopolitan post nation?

Rival views of Scotland at the beginning of the twenty-first century see the nation as either, hopelessly schizophrenic, mired in its own bedevilled tartanry and forever salvaging the present through historic erasure or as a cosmopolitan postnation at ease with its contradictory legacies and able to tap its inherent multiplicities for a contemporary self image. These contentions are being interrogated in public debates and political contexts as well as in literature in Scotland. The process of re-imagining or re-visioning Scotland began much earlier than 1999 when the Scottish Parliament, last adjourned in 1707, was reconvened. Contemporary authors have long been reconsidering issues of identity and how this could and should be represented in their writing. This paper will examine how the underlying forces of insistent Scottish identity-making now seem to be moving in the direction of synthesis rather than fragmentation within literature, permitting multiple perspectives and a plurality of approaches through different genres, recognising other people’s rights to perceive or imagine Scotland differently. Anne Forbes’ novels Dragonfire,(2006) The Wings of Ruksh (2007) and The Underground City (2008), fully post-modern fantasy novels, will be used as examples of ‘fusion’ texts introducing an optimistic new notion of ‘belonging’ transcending the cultural fatalism of the so-called ‘clash of civilisations’ hypothesis and building positively on the politics of difference. They represent a form of literary cosmopolitanism entirely consonant with the way Scottish society currently aspires to progress, offering the right set of circumstances for developing new forms of syncretistic myth-making and storytelling across and between communities

A Scrambled Sudoku

A sudoku puzzle using the word scrambled