The Tower of Hanoi — Myths and Maths

Links

Myths:

Tower of Brahma

Maths:

Ayliean MacDonald, Numberphile: Key to the Tower of Hanoi, 27th October 2021
Ian Stewart on the Sierpiński gasket at the Pi-Day 2021 event of the Prison Mathematics Project, 14th March 2021
Burkard Polster, Mathologer: The ultimate algorithm, 6th March 2021
Benoît Rittaud, VideoDiMath: La tour de Hanoï, entre jeu, algorithmes et fractals, 6th March 2020
A. M. Hinz, Mathematisches Seminar: The Reve's Puzzle Solved?, Sommersemester 2015
A. M. Hinz, Mathematisches Seminar: Der Turm von Hanoi - Mythos und Wahrheit, Sommersemester 2013
+plus magazine, The Tower of Hanoi: Where maths meets psychology by Marianne Freiberger, 16th November 2012
Collection of sources on the life and work of Édouard Lucas
Sources in Recreational Mathematics by David Singmaster (till 2004)
Paul Stockmeyer's list of references (till 2005)
The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Puzzles:

Musée des arts et métiers le cnam, Paris
Nobel Prize winner Herbert A. Simon playing the Tower of Hanoi
The Puzzle Museum
Yi Zhi Tang collection of traditional Chinese puzzles
Tower of Hanoi / Rudenko Disk / Rudenko Clips from Jaap's Puzzle Page
Two solutions (first, second) to the Chinese Rings
Two solutions (first, second) to the Chinese String

Lectures:

A. M. Hinz at the University of Maribor, 2008
"Euler" on Euler at Gresham College, London, 2007
Robin Wilson at Gresham College, London, 2002
Robert B. Davis at Private Universe Project in Mathematics Workshops, 29.10.1993

Events:

Andreas M. Hinz visited Springer booth at International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, showing his book to Japan Springer editors Chino Hasebe and Masayuki Nakamura, 14th August 2014 (twitter, fb, ow.ly)
The Tower of Hanoi for Robotics contest, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Algarve, Portugal, 2012
Meet the author of the Tower of Hanoi — Myths and Maths, 6th European Congress of Mathematics, Krakow, Poland, 2012
Symposium La «Tour d’Hanoï», un casse-tête mathématique d’Édouard Lucas (1842-1891), Paris, France, 2009
Workshop on the Tower of Hanoi and Related Problems, Maribor, Slovenia, 2005

Miscellanea:

A 7-year-old girl moving discs flawlessly with skill like a virtuosa
Hanoi baked beans in Dara O' Briain's School of Hard Sums
Programming chrestomathy for solving classical Tower of Hanoi problem on Rosetta Code and Hanoimania!
JP Brown's Serious LEGO - pneumatic HanoiSolver
LEGO Mindstorms NXT programmable robotics kit - Tower of Hanoi
The end of the world at 21'32" in Doctor Who, William Hartnell (1963-1966), Season 3 (1965-1966), The Celestial Toymaker, Part4, The Final Test
About an early science-fiction story disclosing the ToH
How to survive in the South-Sea with the ToH (see Episode 1: "I Need Redemption")

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