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Documents written by Bill Cutler

Cutler, William H. "The Six-Piece Burr", Journal of Recreational Mathematics. Vol 10(4), 1977-78, pp. 241-250.

Cutler, William H. "Subdividing a Box into Completely Incongruent Boxes", Journal of Recreational Mathematics. Vol 12(2), 1979-80, pp. 104-111.

Holey 6-Piece Burr - also available in hardcopy
First booklet about 6-piece burrs.

A Computer Analysis of All 6-Piece Burrs - also available in hardcopy
Results of the computer analysis of the 35,657,131,235 6-piece burrs.

Block-Packing Jambalaya
Discussion of 11 different box-filling puzzles. Written on the occasion of the Puzzle Exhibition at the Atlanta International Museum of Art and Design in January, 1993. Presented at "A Gathering for Gardner II", Atlanta, January, 1996. published in The Mathemagician and the Pied Puzzler, edited by Berlekamp and Rodgers, 1999, AKPeters, Ltd., pp 169-174

Other References

Appel, K. and W. Haken. "The Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem", Scientific American. September, 1977, pp. 108-121.

Botermanns, Jack and Pieter Van Delft. Creative Puzzles of the World. Harry Abrams Publishing, 1978.

Coffin, Stewart. Puzzle Craft, 1985.

Cross, C. Arthur. The Chinese Cross Puzzle. Pentangle, 1979.

Dewdney, A. K. "Computer Recreations", Scientific American, Vol 253, Issue 4, Oct. 1985, pp. 16-27.

Filipiak, A. S. 100 Puzzles, A. S. Barnes and Co., 1942, pp. 79-87.

Gardner, Martin. "Mathematical Games", Scientific American. February 1976, pp. 122-129.

Gardner, Martin. "Mathematical Games", Scientific American. January 1978, pp. 14-26.

Gardner, Martin. "Mathematical Games", Scientific American. February 1979, pp. 20-23.

Hoffman, D. "Packing Problems and Inequalities", The Mathematical Gardner, ed. by D. Klarner. Wadsworth International, 1981, pp. 212-225.

Klarner, D. "Brick-Packing Puzzles", Journal of Recreational Mathematics. Vol 6(2), Spring, 1973, pp. 112-117.

Slocum, Jerry, and Jack Botermans. Puzzles Old & New. University of Washington Press, 1986.

Wyatt, E.M. Puzzles in Wood. The Bruce Publishing Company, 1928. Reprinted in 1983 by Woodcraft Supply Corporation.

Wyatt, E.M. Wonders in Wood. The Bruce Publishing Company, 1946

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