Author : Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2014-05-25
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486795659
Fun-filled, math-based puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.
Author : Fred Schuh
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486808955
Praised for its "exceptionally good value" by the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, this book offers fun-filled insights into many fields of mathematics. The brainteasers include original puzzles as well as new approaches to classic conundrums. A vast assortment of challenges features domino puzzles, the game of noughts and crosses, games of encirclement, sliding movement puzzles, subtraction games, puzzles in mechanics, games with piles of matches, a road puzzle with concentric circles, "Catch the Giant," and much more. Detailed solutions show several methods by which a particular problem may be answered, why one method is preferable, and where the others fail. With numerous worked examples, the clear, step-by-step analyses cover how the problem should be approached, including hints and enumeration of possibilities and determination of probabilities, application of the theory of probability, and evaluation of contingencies and mean values. Readers are certain to improve their puzzle-solving strategies as well as their mathematical skills.
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 1958-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486204928
Over 350 ingenious problems involving classical logic: logic expressed in symbols; syllogisms and the sorites diagrammed; logic as a game played with 2 diagrams and a set of counters.
Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486315770
These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.
Author : H. E. Dudeney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486425584
This book includes 110 puzzles, not as individual problems but as incidents in connected stories. The first 31 are amusingly posed by pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Additional puzzles are presented using different characters. Many require only the ability to exercise logical or visual skills; others offer a stimulating challenge to the mathematically advanced.
Author : Victoria Fremont
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486803074
When is a car not a car? When it turns into a driveway. Why was the math book so sad? It had too many problems. 61 zany teeth-gritters. Amusing illustrations by Larry Daste.
Author : Terry Stickels
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486808572
"Fun and highly formidable math problems and puzzles from noted puzzle creator Terry Stickels." — Window on Resources Two friends wish to meet for breakfast twice a month throughout the year. In how many ways can they choose those two days so that they never meet on consecutive days? You want to measure 30 seconds and you have two pieces of string, each of which burns for 40 seconds. How can you accomplish this without bending, folding, or cutting the strings? A positive whole number is divisible by 3 and also by 5. When the number is divided by 7, the remainder is 5. What is the smallest number that could work? These are but a few of this book's assembly of the most challenging puzzles imaginable ― and they require no background in higher math, just good thinking skills. Terry Stickels, a well-known puzzle-maker, has compiled 101 of some of the best and most entertaining problems ever published. All of the challenges, which range from probability puzzles to dice games, have two things in common: each offers the "Aha!" moment of discovery that puzzle-solvers love, and they're all fun. Complete solutions for all puzzles explain every detail.
Author : Louis Hoffmann
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486454740
These pleasantly perplexing highlights from the classic 1893 puzzle book abound in Victorian charm. They include both arithmetic problems and challenges involving words and letters. Complete solutions.
Author : Gerolamo Cardano
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 048680898X
Mathematics was only one area of interest for Gerolamo Cardano ― the sixteenth-century astrologer, philosopher, and physician was also a prolific author and inveterate gambler. Gambling led Cardano to the study of probability, and he was the first writer to recognize that random events are governed by mathematical laws. Published posthumously in 1663, Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae (Book on Games of Chance) is often considered the major starting point of the study of mathematical probability. The Italian scholar formulated some of the field's basic ideas more than a century before the better-known correspondence of Pascal and Fermat. Although his book had no direct influence on other early thinkers about probability, it remains an important antecedent to later expressions of the science's tenets.
Author : Pierre Berloquin
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486805697
Follow the hour hand and minute hand of a clock for 24 hours. How many times do they form a right angle? Timothy's house has several rooms, each of which has an even number of doors, including doors that lead outside. Is the number of outside doors even or odd? Stimulating and delightful, this collection of puzzles features original and classic brainteasers. The author, a puzzle columnist for Le Monde, specially selected these mind-benders for the widest possible audience, ensuring that they're neither too hard for those without a math background nor too easy for the mathematically adept. All puzzles are clearly stated and accurately answered at the back of the book ― and they're great fun to consider, whether you crack them or not. Includes a Foreword by Martin Gardner.
