References for Rectifiable Polyominoes
I have also included references for tiling rectangles with two types of
polyominoes, and also for 3-dimensional (and higher) packings.
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James Bitner, Tiling 5n x 12 Rectangles with Y-pentominoes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
7 (1974), no. 4, pp. 276-278.
[MR]
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C.J. Bouwkamp and D.A. Klarner, Packing a Box with Y-pentacubes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
3 (1970), no. 1, pp. 10-26.
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Chris Bouwkamp, The Cube-Y Problem, Cubism For Fun 25,
(December 1990 - January 1991), part 3, pp. 30-43.
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Andrejs Cibulis and Ilvars Mizniks, Tiling Rectangles with Pentominoes,
Latvijas Universitātes Zinātniskie Raksti 612
(1998) pp. 57-61.
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Andris Cibulis,
Packing Boxes
with N-tetracubes,
Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem 23
(October 1997), no. 6, pp. 336-342.
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Andrew L. Clarke,
A Pentomino Conjecture, Problem 600,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 10 (1977-78), no. 1,
p. 54.
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Solution by Mike Beeler, Journal of Recreational Mathematics
12 (1979-80), no. 1, pp. 63-64.
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Andrew L. Clarke,
Packing Boxes with Congruent Polycubes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 10 (1977-78), no. 3,
pp. 177-182.
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Karl A. Dahlke,
The
Y-hexomino has order 92,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 51 (1989),
no. 1, pp. 125-126.
[MR]
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Karl A. Dahlke,
A Heptomino
of Order 76,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
51 (1989), no. 1, pp. 127-128.
[MR]
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Erratum,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 52
(1990), no. 2, p. 321.
[MR]
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Karl A. Dahlke,
Solomon W. Golomb and Herbert Taylor,
An Octomino
of High Order,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 70 (1995), no. 1,
pp. 157-158.
[MR]
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Raymond R. Fletcher III, Tiling Rectangles with Symmetric Hexagonal
Polyominoes, Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Southeastern International
Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Baton Rouge, LA,
1996, Congressus Numerantium 122 (1996), pp. 3-29.
[MR]
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Julian Fogel, Mark Goldenberg and Andy Liu,
Packing Rectangles with Y-Pentominoes,
Mathematics and Informatics Quarterly 11 (2001), no. 3,
pp. 133-137.
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Martin Gardner, Polyominoes and Rectification, Chapter 13 in Mathematical
Magic Show, The Mathematical Association of America, 1989.
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Frits Göbel, Packing with Congruent Shapes, Cubism For Fun
22 (December 1989), pp. 13-20.
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Frits Göbel, Prime pentacube packing, Cubism For Fun
33 (February 1994), pp. 24-25.
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S.W. Golomb,
Covering a Rectangle
with L-tetrominoes, Problem E 1543,
American Mathematical Monthly 69
(November 1962), no. 9, p. 920.
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Solution to
Problem E 1543
D.A. Klarner, American Mathematical Monthly
70 (August-September 1963), no. 7, pp. 760-761.
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Solomon W. Golomb,
Tiling with
Polyominoes,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory 1 (1966) pp. 280-296.
[MR]
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Solomon W. Golomb,
Tiling with
Sets of Polyominoes,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory 9 (1970) pp. 60-71.
[MR]
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Solomon W. Golomb,
Polyominoes
Which Tile Rectangles,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 51 (1989),
no. 1, pp. 117-124.
[MR]
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Solomon W. Golomb, Tiling Rectangles with Polyominoes, Chapter 8 in
Polyominoes, Second edition, Princeton University Press, 1994.
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Solomon W. Golomb,
Tiling Rectangles with
Polyominoes, in Mathematical entertainments, edited by David Gale,
The Mathematical Intelligencer 18 (1996), no. 2, pp. 38-47.
[MR]
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Jenifer Haselgrove, Packing a Square with Y-pentominoes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
7 (1974), no. 3, p. 229.
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Robert Hochberg and Michael Reid,
Tiling with Notched Cubes,
Discrete Mathematics 214 (2000), no. 1-3, pp. 255-261.
[MR]
[Zbl]
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Ross Honsberger, Box packing problems, chapter 8 in Mathematics Gems II,
the Mathematical Association of America, Washington D.C. 1976.
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Charles H. Jepsen, Lowell Vaughn and Daren Brantley,
Orders of L-shaped Polyominoes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 32 (2003-2004), no. 3,
pp. 226-231.
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David A. Klarner,
Some Results
Concerning Polyominoes,
Fibonacci Quarterly 3 (1965), pp. 9-20.
[MR]
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David A. Klarner,
Packing a
Rectangle with Congruent N-ominoes,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory 7 (1969) pp. 107-115.
[MR]
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David A. Klarner, Letter to the Editor,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
3 (1970), no. 4, p. 258.
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David A. Klarner,
A Finite
Basis Theorem Revisited, Technical Report CS-TR-73-338,
Stanford University, February 1973.
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David Klarner, A Search for N-pentacube Prime Boxes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 12 (1979-80), no. 4,
pp. 252-257.
[MR]
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D.A. Klarner and F. Göbel, Packing boxes with congruent figures,
Indagationes Mathematicae 31 (1969) pp. 465-472.
[MR]
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Earl S. Kramer, Tiling Rectangles with T and C Pentominoes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 16 (1983-84), no. 2,
pp. 102-113.
[MR]
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Earl S. Kramer and Frits Göbel, Tiling Rectangles with Pairs of
Pentominoes, Journal of Recreational Mathematics 16
(1983-84), no. 3, pp. 198-206.
[MR]
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Rodolfo Marcelo Kurchan, Letter to the Editor,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 23 (1991), no. 1, p. 5.
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Rodolfo Marcelo Kurchan, Letter to the Editor,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
24 (1992), no. 3, pp. 184-185.
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Miklós Laczkovich,
Tiling with T-tetrominoes,
Problem 1263,
Mathematics Magazine 60 (April 1987), no. 2, p. 114.
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Solution to
Problem 1263 by Jerrold W. Grossman, Mathematics Magazine
61 (April 1988), no. 2, pp. 119-120.
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T.W. Marlow, Grid Dissections, Chessics 23 (1985),
pp. 78-79.
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William Rex Marshall,
Packing Rectangles
with Congruent Polyominoes,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 77 (1997), no. 2,
pp. 181-192.
[MR]
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Jean Meeus, The Smallest U-N Square,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
18 (1985-86), no. 1, p. 8.
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Jean Meeus, Letter to the Editor,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 18 (1985-86), no. 1,
pp. 49, 51.
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Michael Reid,
Letter to the Editor,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
25 (1993), no. 2, pp. 149-150.
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Michael Reid,
Tiling Rectangles and
Half Strips with Congruent Polyominoes,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 80 (1997), no. 1,
pp. 106-123.
[MR]
[Zbl]
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Michael Reid,
Tiling a Square with Eight
Congruent Polyominoes,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
83 (1998), no. 1, p. 158.
[Zbl]
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Michael Reid,
Tiling with Similar
Polyominoes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 31 (2002-2003), no. 1,
pp. 15-24.
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Michael Reid,
Tile Homotopy Groups,
L'Enseignement Mathématique
49 (2003), no. 1-2, pp. 123-155.
[MR]
[Zbl]
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Michael Reid,
Klarner Systems and Tiling Boxes
with Polyominoes,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 111
(2005), no. 1, pp. 89-105.
[MR]
[Zbl]
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Michael Reid,
Asymptotically Optimal Box
Packing Theorems,
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 15 (2008),
no. 1, R78, 19 pp.
[MR]
[Zbl]
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Karl Scherer,
Some New Results on Y-pentominoes,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 12 (1979-80), no. 3,
pp. 201-204.
[MR]
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Karl Scherer,
Heptomino Tessellations, Problem 1045,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
14 (1981-82), no. 1, p. 64.
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Solutions by
Scherer
and
Karl A. Dahlke,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
21 (1989), no. 3, pp. 221-223.
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Solution by Karl A.
Dahlke, Journal of Recreational Mathematics 22
(1990), no. 1, pp. 68-69.
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Karl Scherer,
A Puzzling
Journey To The Reptiles And Related Animals, privately published,
Auckland, New Zealand, 1987.
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Karl Scherer,
Pentacube Packing Problems, Problem 1615,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
20 (1988), no. 1, p. 78.
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Solution by Richard I. Hess, Journal of Recreational Mathematics
21 (1989), no. 1, pp. 74-75.
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Solution by
Karl Scherer,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 24 (1992), no. 1,
pp. 62-64.
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Karl Scherer,
The U-Pentacube Packing Problem, Problem 1963,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
24 (1992), no. 2, p. 146.
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Solutions by Brian Barwell and Michael Reid,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 25 (1993), no. 3,
pp. 226-229.
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Karl Scherer,
The T-Pentacube Packing Problem, Problem 1990,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
24 (1992), no. 3, p. 224.
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Solutions by Frits Göbel and Michael Beeler,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 26 (1994), no. 1,
pp. 66-67.
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Karl Scherer,
The primes of a certain pentacube,
Journal of Recreational Mathematics 26 (1994), no. 1,
pp. 1-2.
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Robert Spira,
A Pavement of Tetrominoes,
Problem E 1786,
American Mathematical Monthly
72 (May 1965), no. 5, p. 543.
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Solution to Problem E 1786,
American Mathematical Monthly
73 (June-July 1966), no. 6, p. 673.
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Robert Spira,
Impossibility of
Covering a Rectangle with L-Hexominoes, Problem E 1983,
American Mathematical Monthly
74 (April 1967), no. 4, p. 439.
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Solution to
Problem E 1983 by Dennis Gannon,
American Mathematical Monthly
75 (August-September 1968), no. 7, pp. 785-786.
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D.W. Walkup,
Covering a Rectangle
with T-tetrominoes
American Mathematical Monthly 72 (November 1965), no. 9,
pp. 986-988.
[MR]
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Ingo Wrede, Rechteckzerlegungen mit kleinen Polyominos, Diplomarbeit,
(1990) Technische Universität Braunschweig.
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