Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402716690
Presents a collection of puzzles that demonstrate the principles of mathematics.
Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402727443
Calculate velocity; explain the Maltese cross mechanism that's the basis of the motion picture projector; and work out the ways different pendulums (including Foucault's famous version) swing. Every attractive page in master Ivan Moscovich's eleventh collection of brain-busters offers a tricky puzzle pleasure. Sixteen tiles show either a crowned frog or a crown prince: distribute them randomly on a game board, face down, and then see if you can come up with a configuration that will allow you to flip them so that all frogs or all princes will turn up. Discern the logic of a number pattern in a partially filled-out grid and discover the missing numerals. From gnomic expansions to infinity and limit, these dilemmas demand a smart solver.
Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402716669
A colorful square, dissected into four parts, with hinges marked in black. If you leave the blue piece fixed and swing the others around their hinges, a new shape will emerge. Can you guess just by looking what it will be? This is just one of the tricky geometrical gems that will make a puzzler’s mind work overtime. Try drawing a set of variously shaped polygons using only a compass and a ruler (no measuring allowed!), figuring out which of two sculptures is bigger (logic alone won’t give you the answer), and lots more.
Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9781402716683
Presents a collection of puzzles that focus on mathematical concepts.
Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781861055965
Puzzlers will feel fit to be tied - Dog Tied: If Fido is tied to a 10-foot-long rope, and his bone is 15 feet away, how is it possible that he can reach and enjoy his bone without breaking or stretching the rope? (And yes - the rope IS tied to something.) There's fun in finding the answer to this and other cool number-based problems. Dust off your mathematics and get solving. The intriguing enigmas include questions on interstellar communications, ancient geometry (Pythagoras and Plato), and even traffic patterns in gridlock city. Or play the grasshopper jumping game. It's all fascinating.
Author : Kostas Karpouzis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3319413163
The core message of this book is: computer games best realise affective interaction. This book brings together contributions from specialists in affective computing, game studies, game artificial intelligence, user experience research, sensor technology, multi-modal interfaces and psychology that will advance the state-of-the-art in player experience research; affect modelling, induction, and sensing; affect-driven game adaptation and game-based learning and assessment. In 3 parts the books covers Theory, Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation, and Applications. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of game research, affective computing, human computer interaction, and artificial intelligence.
Author : Peter Winkler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1040049516
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. This Revised Edition has been thoroughly edited to correct errors and provide clarifications, and includes some totally different solutions, modified puzzles, and one entirely new puzzle. 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 : John M. Samson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1416559094
Across or Down, The Best Crosswords Around! With 300 Brand-new Puzzles to Solve In 1924, Simon & Schuster published its first title, The Cross Word Puzzle Book. Not only was it the publisher's first release -- it was the first collection of crossword puzzles ever printed. Today, more than eighty years later, the legendary Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book series maintains its status as the standard-bearer for cruciverbal excellence. This series continues to provide the most challenging, fresh, and original puzzles on the market. Created by the best contemporary constructors -- and edited by top puzzle master John M. Samson -- these Thursday to Sunday-size brain breakers offer hours of stimulation for solvers of every level. With hundreds of puzzles in one volume, the Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book series will continue to test the knowledge of solvers everywhere. Can you avoid turning to the answer key? Sharpen your pencils, grit your teeth, and find out!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
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Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402733734
It takes physical exercise to build the body—and it takes a workout to strengthen the brain, too. Ivan Moscovich is a masterful coach, and he’s created a selection of tricky conundrums to enhance every muscle of the mind. Because each puzzle must be completed in just one minute, there’s a little hourglass timer (built into the book’s front cover) that’s custom-made to run for 60 seconds. Set it, and start the “circuit training” with the creative thinking puzzles: These graded problems develop flexibility, lasting mental stamina, and all-around mental fitness. Plus, they refine solvers’ natural aptitude for the logic, number, visual reasoning, and word puzzles that follow. The culmination: a special Genius Gymnasium program that helps maintain the brain for years to come!
