The Edge of the Universe

Preface; 1. John Horton Conway - talking a good game; 2. Long run predictions; 3. The art gallery problem; Army beats Harvard in football and mathematics; 4. Fermat faces reality - a diophantine drama in one act; 5. Why history?; 6. Carving mathematics; 7. Word ladders - Lewis Carroll's doublets; 8. Professor of magic mathematics; Weird dice; 9. The Chinese domino challenge; 10. Making connections - a profile of Fan Chung; 11. Math on money; 12. The parallel climbers puzzle - a case study in the power of graph models; 13. A perfectly odd encounter in a reno café n; 14. In prime territory; 15. 1996 - A triple anniversary; 16. A nice genius; 17. An ABeCedarian history of mathematics; 18. Some surprising theorems about rectangles in triangles; 19. Annular rings of equal area; 20. Some new discoveries about 3 ˙ 3 magic squares; 21. The eccentricities of actors; 22. What's left?; 23. Egyptian rope, Japanese paper, and high school math; 24. Art Benjamin - mathemagician; 25. The PhD of comedy; 26. Legislating pi; 27. The ultimate flat tire; 28. The roots of the branches of mathematics; 29. The magician of Budapest; 30. Turning theorems into plays; 31. Cycloidal areas without calculus; 32. A bicentennial for the fundamental theorem of algebra; 33. Was Gauss smart?; 34. Adoption and reform of the Gregorian calendar; 35. Quadrilaterally speaking; 36. Stopwatch date; 37. A very simple, very paradoxical old space-filling curve; 38. Coal miner's daughter; 39. Beware of geeks bearing grifts; 40. The traveling baseball fan; 41. A dozen areal maneuvers; 42. Suppose you want to vote strategically; 43. TopSpin on the symmetric group; 44. Some new results on nonattacking chess tasks; 45. Dick Termes and his spheres; 46. The edge of the universe - noneuclidean wallpaper; 47. Alfred Bray Kempe's 'proof' of the four-color theorem; 48. A tale both shocking and hyperbolic; 49. Symbols of power; 50. The conquest of the Kepler conjecture; 51. A match made in mathematics; 52. How many women mathematicians can you name?; 53. If Pascal had a computer; 54. President Garfield and the Pythagorean theorem; 55. Life and death on the Go board; 56. In search of a practical map fold; 57. The world's first mathematics textbook; 58. The instability of democratic decisions; 59. A baseball giant, a math giant, and the epsilon in the middle; 60. Digging for squares; 61. A dozen questions about a triangle; 62. Geometry and gerrymandering; 63. Who is the greatest hitter of them all?; 64. Generalized cyclogons; 65. Fitch Cheney's five card trick; 66. The card game; 67. Truels and the future; 68. Unreasonable effectiveness; 69. How to ace literature - a streetwise guide for the math student; 70. Fibonacci's triangle and other abominations; 71. A switch in time pays fine?; 72. Paintings, plane tilings and proofs; 73. Knots to you; About the editors.