Timeline for Mathematical Aspects of Hectoc-type Puzzles
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| May 22, 2018 at 1:52 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | To save others the effort, I note there are no results for hectoc on MathSciNet. | |
| May 21, 2018 at 16:22 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | Regarding trisectors: I confused Underwood Dudley with Dudeney: The Trisectors | |
| May 21, 2018 at 15:50 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I don't know about trisectors. H. E. Dudeney was a puzzlist whose recreational mathematics included graph theory, geometric dissections, alphanumeric problems, and likely progenitors of hectoc. If there has been any good endorsement or research of hectoc done at all (most likely through recreational mathematics or some part of computer science), I would expect it to have a reference to Dudeney. Gerhard "You Could Ask Will Shortz" Paseman, 2018.05.21. | |
| May 21, 2018 at 15:42 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | @GerhardPaseman I have done some online search for the term "hectoc", but didn't get anything beyond the official site and a link to a German TV show, where a 12 year old kid challenged an adult on playing hectoc and won (I saw that show and it was the first time I heard of hectoc). How is Dudeney related to hectoc? Is he the same Dudeney who coined the term "trisectors" for people who believe to have a solution for provably unsolvable problems? | |
| May 21, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | What literature searches have you tried? Gerhard "Perhaps It's Found Under Dudeney" Paseman, 2018.05.21. | |
| May 21, 2018 at 15:12 | history | asked | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |