Book Description
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486320324
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.
Author : Meg Clemens
Publisher : Everything
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580627733
Stump your friends and family with this fun, challenging math puzzle book! Who knew that math could be so cool? Crammed with games, puzzles, and trivia, The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book puts the fun back into playing with numbers! If you have any fear of math—or are just tired of sitting in a classroom—The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book provides hours of entertainment. You’ll get so caught up in the activities, you won’t even know you’re learning! Inside, you’ll be able to: -Decode hidden messages using Roman numerals -Connect the dots using simple addition and subtraction -Learn to create magic number squares -Use division to answer musical riddles -Match the profession to numerical license plates
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1986-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486252116
Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem. Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed. Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all that is needed to solve a puzzle is the ability to think logically and clearly, to be "on the alert for surprising, off-beat angles...that strange hidden factor that everyone else had overlooked." Fully illustrated, this engaging collection will appeal to parents and children, amateur mathematicians, scientists, and students alike, and may, as the author writes, make the reader "want to study the subject in earnest" and explains "some of the inviting paths that wind away from the problems into lusher areas of the mathematical jungle." 65 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Miodrag Petkovi_
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821848143
This entertaining book presents a collection of 180 famous mathematical puzzles and intriguing elementary problems that great mathematicians have posed, discussed, and/or solved. The selected problems do not require advanced mathematics, making this book accessible to a variety of readers. Mathematical recreations offer a rich playground for both amateur and professional mathematicians. Believing that creative stimuli and aesthetic considerations are closely related, great mathematicians from ancient times to the present have always taken an interest in puzzles and diversions. The goal of this book is to show that famous mathematicians have all communicated brilliant ideas, methodological approaches, and absolute genius in mathematical thoughts by using recreational mathematics as a framework. Concise biographies of many mathematicians mentioned in the text are also included. The majority of the mathematical problems presented in this book originated in number theory, graph theory, optimization, and probability. Others are based on combinatorial and chess problems, while still others are geometrical and arithmetical puzzles. This book is intended to be both entertaining as well as an introduction to various intriguing mathematical topics and ideas. Certainly, many stories and famous puzzles can be very useful to prepare classroom lectures, to inspire and amuse students, and to instill affection for mathematics.
Author : Peter Winkler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0429557973
Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. Features A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.
Author : Dick Hess
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486480542
Ready for a challenge? These puzzles offer a workout for your mathematical thinking processes along with your aptitude for logic and insight and your grasp of geometrical and analytical concepts. They'll test your perseverance, too! Suitable for dedicated puzzlists ages 12 and older, these 123 brainteasers vary in difficulty, ranging from playful puzzles involving games to tough questions of probability. Complete solutions appear at the end.
Author : Dick Hess
Publisher : Puzzlewright
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781454909743
Are you sharp enough to solve these devious mind-bogglers? These diverting number, geometric, logic, analytical, and story problems--which vary in difficulty from pleasantly puzzling to chew-your-pencil challenging--will test your smarts. Math conundrum connoisseurs will treasure this collection, and everyone who loves a good puzzle will feel a sense of accomplishment by the end of the book.
Author : Boris A. Kordemsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1992-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486270785
A collection of math and logic puzzles features number games, magic squares, tricks, problems with dominoes and dice, and cross sums, in addition to other intellectual teasers.
Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780228101536
"A renowned puzzle master and game inventor presents 315 new and traditional puzzles. The Puzzle Universe is intended for general readers and devoted puzzlers. It is about the latent beauty of mathematics, its history, and the puzzles that have advanced and emerged from the science of numbers. It is full of challenging historical facts, thinking puzzles, paradoxes, illusions, and problem solving. There are 315 puzzles in this book. Extended captions explain in easy terms the value of the puzzles for mathematical and educational purposes, particularly in light of the findings of recent research. This historical and pedagogical dimension sets The Puzzle Universe apart from similar books. The puzzles appear in a dynamic layout for a visual experience that is Ivan Moscovich's trademark. There are ten chapters complete with answers. Icons show the challenge rating and the tools needed (pencil, scissors, ruler, and of course, brain) to solve the puzzle."--
Author : David A. Adler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Mathematical recreations
ISBN : 9780823412839
A collection of mathematical riddles involving people, animals, coins, or food.