From: "SATTERFIELD,WADE J (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" To: "'Thane Plambeck'" Subject: RE: Satterfield's Tomb Date: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:33 AM Hi Thane, Filtering out anything from AOL seems like a reasonable filter. Maybe my HP address will get through. :) Thanks for sending out the paper. David had that paper typed once. Deb probably did it. I have a printed copy of it. I think it was dated June of 1990. The 1990 copy I have is also missing the final conclusions about which of the 19 animals can be pieced together to make a pyramid. David's plan was to submit the paper to some book that was being done for Martin Gardner's birthday (80th birthday?). I was probably supposed to draw some more pictures for the paper, and never did. I don't think the paper ever got submitted. I was suprised he wrote a paper on the little bear, I thought we were just having fun making tinker toy models. Before he wrote the paper we had come to the conclusion that the puzzle of assembling 4 little bears into a pyramid is much more fun using marbles than the polyhedra. I still have one of the tinker toy models. My kids and I put it together the other night. They both commented on how precise it was. I'll e-mail you a photo of it. We made three tinker toy versions. Two had 4 levels and one had 5. I have one of the smaller ones, the other two were given to some Prof in the Architecture department. We gave them all of the measurements and angles and they made lots of models in paper and in their CADD packages. They were going to try and design apartment buildings that were pyramids. Last night I tried to find the paper the Architecture Prof wrote. I still have the original templates we used to make paper templates of the cells. They look very much like the ones you drew. Ours were printed on a 72dpi printer driven by an Osborne computer. I still have more notes to dig through. I have one of Klarner's papers I need to type up. It is half an inch thick and still unfinished. We found a new lower bound for the Klarner Konstant. I'll write more later, Wade > -----Original Message----- > From: Thane Plambeck [mailto:thane@kothreat.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:18 AM > To: UUade@aol.com > Cc: thane@best.com; wade_satterfield@hp.com > Subject: Satterfield's Tomb > > > Hi Wade! I almost missed your message in my spam filter. > > I have a bunch of unpublished research notes by David Klarner > from Kara Lynn. One of the files had a 24 page handwritten manuscript > in David's handwriting called "Satterfield's Tomb." I turned > it into a paper > (attached as PDF). I added the diagrams and completed---I think---the > results section, which was missing. It's clear from the > notes (and title!) > that the intention is that you are a co-author. > > Anyway I would be very interested in your ideas about this > paper, whether > there is more work I'm unaware of, etc. Doron Zeilberger > suggested posting > it to xxx.lanl.gov in the recreational math section (I think > there is one). It would > need to be changed slightly before doing that (adding authors > names, at least). Also > Stuart Margolis and Spyros Magliveras are interested in > helping to complete > some of David's other work. This paper might go in that > (maybe a book). Since > you are a co-author of course the decision is up to you, > anyway we are just > kicking around ideas about it. What do you think? > > Thane > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:53 AM > Subject: Hello > > > > Hi Thane, > > > > I remember meeting you at UNL. You were introduced > > as a member of the winning ACM team. > > > > Jo says you are looking for me. Something about > > a paper and a pyramid. > > > > You can reach me at home at UUade@aol.com or at work > > at wade_satterfield@hp.com. > > > > I look forward to hearing from you, > > > > Wade >