Puzzles Old and New, Etc
Author : Louis HOFFMANN (Professor, pseud. [i.e. Angelo John Lewis.])
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Louis HOFFMANN (Professor, pseud. [i.e. Angelo John Lewis.])
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Louis HOFFMANN (Professor, pseud. [i.e. Angelo John Lewis.])
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : David Wells
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Mathematical recreations
ISBN : 9780486443416
"Of immense interest to those who enjoy recreational maths and puzzles . . . even the most hardened puzzler will find something new." -- Mathematical Gazette Puzzles are as old as history itself, following an arc like that of technology: centuries of slow progress, followed by rapid expansion in the 1800s, and an explosion of activity in the twentieth century. This collection by bestselling author David Wells, a Cambridge math scholar and teacher, follows that pattern. Its first part is devoted to puzzles from ancient Egypt and Babylon and subsequent sources, featuring those devised by Lewis Carroll, Eduard Lucas, Sam Loyd, and other master puzzlers of the Victorian era. The second part demonstrates the tremendous variety of twentieth-century puzzles. More than 560 puzzles are included, from the "mind sharpeners" of a medieval monk to the eighteenth-century Ladies' Diary, the Hindu Bhakshali manuscript, and riddles and popular rhymes. None requires any mathematics beyond the most elementary algebra and geometry -- and few require even that. Complete answers appear at the end.
Author : Jerry Slocum
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Puzzles
ISBN : 9781874616016
Author : Will Larson
Publisher : Stripe Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1953953336
A human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt. There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions for complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams—and, ultimately, between the success and failure of companies. Will Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle focuses on the particular challenges of engineering management—from sizing teams to handling technical debt to performing succession planning—and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management for leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in.
Author : Alex Irvine
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781452148274
New York Collapse is an in-world fictionalized companion to one of the biggest video game releases of 2016: Tom Clancy's The Division from Ubisoft. Within this discarded survivalist field guide, written before the collapse, lies a mystery—a handwritten account of a woman struggling to discover why New York City fell. The keys to unlocking the survivor's full story are hidden within seven removable artifacts, ranging from a full-city map to a used transit card. Retrace her steps through a destroyed urban landscape and decipher her clues to reveal the key secrets at the heart of this highly anticipated game.
Author : Jerry Slocum
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780295965796
Shows a variety of antique and modern puzzles, including puzzle locks and rings, and folding, impossible object, vanish, dexterity, sequential movement, disentanglement, interlocking, and take-apart puzzles
Author : Hoffmann Hoffmann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780364518823
Excerpt from Puzzles Old and New The Natural History of the Puzzle has yet to be written. It is a plant of very ancient growth, as (witness the riddle of the Sphinx, solved by (edipus, and the enigma wherewith Samson confounded his Philistine adversaries. Homer is said by Plutarch to have died of chagrin at being unable to guess a riddle; and folklore abounds in instances Where the Winning of a princess, or the issue of some perilous adventure, is made to depend upon success in solving some puzzle, verbal or otherwise. In more modern times grave mathematicians, like Cardan and Euler, have not disdained to employ their leisure in the fabrication of posers for the puzzlement of their less erudite compeers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Hoffmann (Professor)
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Angelo John Lewis
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1893
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