Collection consists of typescript and holograph manuscripts of mathematical calculations, proofs, notes, diagrams and diary entries; and coloured slides of tiling diagrams of geometric shapes in various combinations and sequences. Mathematical subjects include hexagonal tiling and prime numbers. Titles on binders containing manuscripts include Tile, Twinlock, N-rep presentations, Hex, Penrose pair, N roots, Re-ordering of O-branch sets and Pythagorean (Hex) numbers play.
Ness, Alan R.Mathematical recreations
19 Archival description results for Mathematical recreations
Fonds consists of correspondence; research material on a broad range of mathematical topics; manuscripts of mathematical articles, notes, calculations and solutions to mathematical problems; and published work.
Trigg, Charles WildermanFonds consists of Leon Bankoff's collection of material relating to a geometric figure, the 'arbelos'. Includes correspondence, primarily with other mathematicians including Clayton W. Dodge, Howard Eves, Leo Sauvé, and Charles W. Trigg; manuscripts including notebooks; published works; works by others; and material by and about M. Victor Thébault.
Dodge, Clayton WillardFonds consists of correspondence between Ms. C.M. Jones and Richard Guy and solutions to problems in number theory.
Fonds consists of correspondence with internationally renowned mathematicians; manuscripts of articles and papers; research, teaching and conference materials; newspaper clippings; notebooks; pamphlets; published works; awards; an unpublished manuscript written with Dutch mathematician Nicholaas G. de Bruijn entitled Pattern enumeration; and papers and articles by others.
Klarner, David A.- Series consists of newsclippings, crosswords, mathematical diagrams and puzzles collected by Eugene Strens. Some files contain correspondence, scrapbooks of mathematical puzzles, and handwritten notes.
- BOX 1 - Files 1 to 3
- BOX 2 - File 4. Includes handwritten notes
- BOX 3 - Files 5 and 6
- BOX 4 - Files 7 and 8
- BOX 5 - Files 9 and 10. File 9 is a scrapbook
- BOX 6 - File 11
- BOX 7 - Files 12 and 13
- BOX 8 - Files 14 and 15
- BOX 9 - Files 16 and 17. File 16 has a poster diagram from Alfred E. Bosman's invention of the Pythagoras Tree (plane fractal constructed from squares).
- BOX 10 - File 18
- BOX 11 - Files 19 and 20. File 20 is a scrapbook.
- BOX 12 - Files 21 to 23. File 23 is a scrapbook.
- BOX 13 - File 24
- BOX 14 - File 25. the file contains handwritten notes, diagrams, correspondence (some in English).
- BOX 15 - File 26. Contains handwritten notes, diagrams.
- BOX 16 - File 27. Contains handwritten notes and diagrams pasted into a handbound volume.
- Box 17 - File 28
- BOX 18 - Files 29 to 31. File 29 is a scrapbook
Fonds consists of miscellaneous archival material including: newspaper clippings of puzzles and other items relating to recreational mathematics, mainly in Dutch (Acc 2080); Martin Gardner's Mathematical games column from Scientific American, December 1956-September 1974 (Acc 2120); various supplementary catalogues and mailings from Mathematisch Centrum, 1949-1964 (Acc 2123); a partial descriptive catalogue of the Eugene Strens Recreational Mathematics book collection on 4x6 cards and miscellaneous items removed from the books and journals in the collection (Acc 2188-2189); and an album of photographs and text from the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Intuitive and Recreational Mathematics and Its History, July 27 - August 2, 1986, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta (Acc 2774).
Strens, EugèneFonds consists of correspondence between H.L. Nelson and various persons relating to puzzles and games and to Journal of Recreational Mathematics during period when H.L. Nelson was editor of the journal.
Nelson, Harry L.Consists of draft inventories of records in the Eugene Strens collections (archival materials and books), and bibliographies from the collection for specific mathematical problems.
Fonds consists of manuscripts and published works by J.R. Hendricks, a CD containing many of his publications, works about him and works by others.
Hendricks, John RobertFonds consists of correspondence and related material such as notes, solutions, papers and reprints of various correspondents including Norman Anning, Donald Coxeter, Clayton W. Dodge, Paul Erdos, Martin Gardner, Victor Thébault, Charles W. Trigg and Leo Sauvé; research material on a broad range of mathematical topics; notebooks; manuscripts of mathematical articles and solutions and book reviews; published works; works about L. Bankoff; photographs; slides; and miscellaneous. Fonds also includes selected issues of many mathematics journals including American Mathematics Monthly and Mathematics Magazine.
Bankoff, LeonConsists of Martin Gardner's published column on mathematical games from Scientific American.
Collection consists of bookplates of Eugène, Pascal, Willy, Carlos and Marina Strens, bookplate and business card of Bianca Strens Hatfield, and Ex Libris listing of Eugène Strens bookplates.
Gardner, MartinConsists of minutes of meetings, lists of publications, newsletters for the organization.
Consists of a compilation of text and photographs from the Conference including descriptions of lectures, photographs of lecturers, images from the Strens collection of games, puzzles and books.
Consists of T.H. O'Beirne's column on puzzles and paradoxes in New Scientist.
Fonds consists of correspondence with various persons including H.S.M. Coxeter and Harry O. Davis, notebooks, manuscripts on mathematical topics and works by other authors with annotations by V. Meally.
Meally, VictorFonds consists of puzzles, computer programs, articles, works by other authors, correspondence between W.E. Philpott and various persons including Martin Gardner, Harry L. Nelson, Joseph S. Madachy.
Philpott, Wade EdwardFile consists of clippings from various newspapers and journals, offprints and reprints of scholarly papers, brochures, newsletters, holograph notes and photographs collected in three scrapbooks.
Schaaf, William Leonard