Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings

Golomb, Solomon W.

ISBN 10: 0691085730 / ISBN 13: 9780691085739

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1994

Beschreibung

Book is clean with a square, tight binding and white pages and no apparent marks on the interior. Dust jacket has minor wear on the covers that is difficult to see in the scans. Inspiring popular video games like Tetris while contributing to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory, polyominoes have continued to spark interest ever since their inventor, Solomon Golomb, introduced them to puzzle enthusiasts several decades ago. In this fully revised and expanded edition of his landmark book, the author takes a new generation of readers on a mathematical journey into the world of the deceptively simple polyomino. Golomb incorporates important, recent developments, and poses problems, inviting the reader to play with and develop an understanding of the extraordinary properties of polyominoes. We are donsbookstore in Albuquerque New Mexico. The book you see in the image is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0691085730
• ISBN-13: 9780691085739
• Einband: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Warren Lushbaugh
• Auflage: 2nd Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Inspiring popular video games like Tetris while contributing to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory, polyominoes have continued to spark interest ever since their inventor, Solomon Golomb, introduced them to puzzle enthusiasts several decades ago. In this expanded edition, the author takes a new generation of readers on a mathematical journey into the world of polyominoes, incorporating important recent developments. Deceptively simple, polyominoes are a collection of squares joined together along their edges. But how many different polyominoes can you make with 5 squares, 6 squares, n squares? Posing problems and giving answers along the way, Golomb invites the reader to play with these mathematical structures and develop an understanding of their extraordinary properties. In this new edition, he addresses the properties of octominoes and enneominoes and the problem of how to cover a doughnut with polyominoes. An extensive bibliography has been included to guide the reader to other interesting mathematical conundrums and to more advanced mathematical theories of polyominoes.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Solomon W. Golomb, University Professor at the University of Southern California, teaches in the Departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, invents mathematical puzzles, and publishes in many areas of science and technology.