Research in maths 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 maths. This book makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathe... Lees meer.

School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening entertaining and vexing curiosities of maths over the years...Now the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some h... Lees meer.

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... Lees meer.

Ingeniously designed mathematical riddles to delight armchair and seasoned mathematicians in high school and beyond.In The Price of Cake brothers Cl ment and Guillaume Deslandes have assembled a uniquely rich and accessible collection of mathematical riddles organize... Lees meer.

Be warned. cracking puzzles releases a very addictive drug. - Marcus du Sautoy Have you ever wanted to be a puzzle pro or logical luminary. Well look no further.... Lees meer.

Over a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that had not been incl... Lees meer.

This is quite simply the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian Estonian Lettish and Lithuanian. Almost... Lees meer.

200 logic puzzles to test your brain with this collection from The Times like a mathematical crossword. Ideal for fans of Su Doku who relish grappling with figures. Contains four levels of difficulty combining arithmetic with an intersecting layout. Mild Medium Tri... Lees meer.

Games that show how mathematics can solve the apparently unsolvable. This book presents a series of engaging games that seem unsolvable--but can be solved when they are translated into mathematical terms. How can players find their ID cards when the cards are distribute... Lees meer.

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Dennis Shasha is the absolute best puzzle writer alive. David Gelernter professor of computer science Yale University In the tradition of Sherlock Holmes Dr. Ecco is one of the greatest sleuths of our time a mathematical wizard who uses logic and computer progra... Lees meer.

Seasoned with Gardner s interest in the history and philosophy of science this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles anecdotes games and logical theory. These intriguing problems collected from Gardner s Scientific American columns involve knots interloc... Lees meer.

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler of Bell Labs dozens of elegant intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles Collected over several years by Peter Winkler of Bell Labs dozens of elegant intriguing challenges are presented in Mathemat... Lees meer.

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Bizarre imagination originality trickiness and whimsy characterize puzzles of Sam Loyd America s greatest puzzler. Present selection from fabulously rare Cyclopedia includes the famous 14 15 puzzles the Horse of a Different Color and 115 others in various areas of... Lees meer.