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29 WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 1972

334TH DAY - 32 DAYS TO COME

Called Martin Gardner (actually 3 times before I got every- thing taken care of). Told him of looking for his book- "The Annotated Shark" in London.

He couldn't tell me anything further about the letter on PATTERNS II - CREATOR (see 11/25). The call he made to me last week was in connection with a letter he rcd. [received] from The Problem Editor of the "American Mathematical Monthly" who wanted information of Lasker's game of LASCA. (He wrote from Israel.) Martin told him about the description in Kraitchik and suggested that for further info he contact me.

Martin wondered which Lasker invented the game - whether it was the same one who wrote the book GO AND GO-MOKU. I checked and found that the article he had once given me on LASKERS stated that it was invented by Emanuel Lasker. The book was written by Edward Lasker.

Told him about the book RATIONAL RECREATIONS. He has seen all 4 volumes in the library and knows where to get a less ex- pensive reprint if he wants it. The author is Hooper. (see 11/24).

Martin told me of a book he ordered through the French Book Store - 70 Madison Ave. - for $20.60. It is called "Anamorphoses"- by Jurgis Baltrusaitis (1969). It has great many black and white reproductions of what is known as "Anamorphic Art." This was a popular art from in the Renaissance. It is a circular flat paint- ing which is to be viewed [illegible word crossed out] on the outside of a reflective cylinder (or some were made for cones). Martin made a cylinder from mirror paper he bought from Edwards Scientific and it works beautifully. He is going to check with SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN about the possibility of doing a column on it and including a sheet of the mirror paper.