Stan Isaacs (cc'ed) would probably know if some portion of Martin Gardner's personal library is included in the corpus of material that Stanford has related to Gardner. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4822392 On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:40 PM James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks!
The Wikipedia page for Craige gives no death date, but uses the past tense in describing his residency in Portland, Maine.
I’ll write to Knuth to see if he has a copy of “The Two Dimensional Abacus”.
Does anyone know what happened to Martin Gardner’s books? Ideally they would all be kept together in the form of a library (specifically, an approximation to The Library of All Books Mentioned In Martin Gardner’s Writings), which could be useful to various sorts of scholars, particularly in the case of obscure books. (Cf. the Eugene Strens Collection at Calgary.)
Jim Propp
On Sunday, June 10, 2018, Hans Havermann <gladhobo@bell.net> wrote:
I wonder whether the only extant account of Schensted's device is in Gardner's files of correspondence.
Apparently Craige Eugene Schensted (later, "Ea Ea") and his wife Irene Verona published "The Two Dimensional Abacus" in 1974. Good luck finding a copy. I wonder if this is arose somehow from Jean Van Arsdel and Joanne Lasky's article "A two-dimensional abacus - the Papy Minicomputer" in The Arithmetic Teacher, October 1972:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41188061
Both Craige and Irene were born in 1927. Not sure what his status is but she died a few months ago. _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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