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| This is John F. Rigby as he's setting up his display. |
John told me that he was first enchanted with mathematics when he was
a boy and his father gave him a set of small tiles to play with. |
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| His floral wallpaper designs, which he could arrange in 36 ways. |
John was on his way to visit Coxeter in Toronto. He needed something
to do, so I invited him to spend the fourth of July with my folks in the
Adirondacks. I told him that we needed an Englishman to tar and feather
for the holiday. When we went into my parents' church, the organist was
playing "My Country 'tis of Thee" which has the same melody as "God Save
the Queen". John said "They're playing my tune!" |
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| A bit of everything from Alan Schoen. |
Alan, with the beard, was very kind to let me use his "Rhomburst" in
my Beyond Numbers materials. |
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| This man seemed to spend the entire conference glueing, cutting and
folding at this table. Turns out he was the great Mangus Wenniger, the
author of many books on polyhedra. The guy in the red shirt showed
us an "exploding" oregami dimpled dodecahedron. John and I spent several
hours putting one together. I can do it now in a few minutes. |
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is a freaky double explosure that shows when I first saw the oregami shape,
and the finished shape on my piano at home! |
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| Marian Walter (on the left) seemed to be the person who knew everybody! |
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| This seven-color torus could be rolled in on itself. It was very appealing. |
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