Author : Boris A. Kordemsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,36 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 : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 36,25 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 : Martin Gardner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780393020236
No amateur or math authority can be without this ultimate compendium of classic puzzles, paradoxes, and puzzles from America's best-loved mathematical expert. 320 line drawings.
Author : Fred Schuh
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,94 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 : 100 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 1992-03-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486269221
Forty-two perplexing puzzles by creator of Alice in Wonderland: Cakes in a Row, Looking-Glass Time, Arithmetical Croquet, Diverse Doublets, and others. Hints, solutions. Illustrations by John Tenniel.
Author : Bernardo Recamán
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 048684241X
"A Colombian mathematician assembled these eighty brainteasers, forming a stimulating collection of word problems, puzzles involving chess pieces, sudoku-style challenges, and other math-based diversions. The book includes solutions"--
Author : Denise Gaskins
Publisher : Tabletop Academy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1892083248
Author : Lee C.F. Sallows
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486290026
This innovative work replaces magic square numbers with two-dimensional forms. The result is a revelation that traditional magic squares are now better seen as the one-dimensional instance of this self-same geometrical activity.
Author : Shakuntala Devi
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9788122200140
Discover the adventure and excitement of mathematical puzzles. Match your wits with the human computer. Sharpen your intellect, delight your friends and enjoy hours of purposeful entertainment. Mathematics is not always hard, mind-boggling stuff. It can also be simple, delightful and interesting. Many famous mathematicians are known to be devoted to peg jumping puzzles. It is perhaps this kind of play that leads to scientific discoveries. The celebrity author, Shakuntala Devi, is regarded as 'authentic heroine of the twentieth century'. She calculates faster than the fastest computer, is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and continues to amaze audiences around the world with her feats of calculation.
Author : Peter Winkler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,91 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.
