On 08/31/2012 08:58 PM, Ray Takeuchi wrote:
I have going through a wonderfully geeky book titled "Magical
Mathematics" by authors Persi Diaconis, a Stanford mathematics and
statistics professor and Ron Graham, a University of California, San
Diego mathematics and computer science professor. There is a section
on Bob Neale with photographic folding instructions of a "beak
puppet." The section goes on about his interest in origami and
topology. The rest of the section is on a gambling confidence game
called "The Endless Chain."
There is even a brief mention of the late Martin Kruskal mathematical
physicist and son of Lillian Oppenheimer about a humorous story
between and the late recreational mathematics genius Martin Gardener.
cheers,
ray t
This is a wonderful book indeed! (Even if it does have some rather
snarky comments about origami and people who fold).
Neil
