Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles
Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles

Author: David Wells

Publisher: Dover Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780486443416

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"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.

Martin Gardner's Science Magic
Martin Gardner's Science Magic

Author: Martin Gardner

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-09-19

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0486152901

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Fun and fascinating, 89 simple magic tricks will teach both children and adults the scientific principles behind electricity, magnetism, sound, gravity, water, and more. Only basic everyday items are needed. Includes 89 black-and-white illustrations.

More Puzzles
More Puzzles

Author: Shakuntala Devi

Publisher: Orient Paperbacks

Published: 2006-10

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9788122200485

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Here are over 300 tantalizing puzzles, brain teasers and riddles by one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the twentieth century, Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the 'human computer'. The puzzles include every possible type of mathematical recreation, time and distance problems, age and money riddles, puzzles involving geometry and elementary algebra, and just plain straight thinking. Often entertaining, but always stimulating, the puzzles included in the book offer hours of fun and relaxation.

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles

Author: Martin Gardner

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0486320324

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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.

Brain Teasers
Brain Teasers

Author: Ravi Narula

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 8172240317

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The more you use the brain, the more it grows. Many in this world have never had the ‘pleasure of using one’s brain’. They know not what joy and gratification, what delight and satisfaction, what fun and contentment lies there in, and they know not what they are missing. So folks,here is a chance to catch up with others because, this book which will act as a 'rich protein diet’ that doctors say is essential for development of the brain. It offers to you a variety of thinkers, ticklers, teasers,squeezers and stranglers, that will turn and twist your brain and help you see a broader and bigger world before you. Thus making you proud when people call you intelligent, sharp, witty, humorous, quick, bright and logical.

Colossal Book of Mathematics
Colossal Book of Mathematics

Author: Martin Gardner

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 748

ISBN-13: 9780393020236

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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.

Mathematical and Algorithmic Puzzles
Mathematical and Algorithmic Puzzles

Author: Pramod Ganapathi

Publisher:

Published: 2024-05-29

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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This book presents serious mathematical and algorithmic puzzles that are mostly counterintuitive. The presented puzzles are simultaneously entertaining, challenging, intriguing, and haunting. This book introduces its readers to counterintuitive mathematical ideas and revolutionary algorithmic insights from a wide variety of topics. The presented solutions that are discovered by many mathematicians and computer scientists are highly counterintuitive and show supreme mathematical beauty. These counterintuitive solutions are intriguing to the degree that they shatter our preconceived notions, shake our long-held belief systems, debunk our fundamental intuitions, and finally rob us of sleep and haunt us for a lifetime. Multiple ways of attacking the same puzzle are presented which teach the application of elegant problem-solving strategies.

Author: Ivan Moscovich

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781402716676

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Presents a collection of puzzles that demonstrate the principles of mathematics.

Lewis Carroll's Cats And Rats... And Other Puzzles With Interesting Tails
Lewis Carroll's Cats And Rats... And Other Puzzles With Interesting Tails

Author: Yossi Elran

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9811233985

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British-Israeli recreational mathematician, communicator and educator, Yossi Elran explores in-depth six of the most ingenious math puzzles, exposing their long 'tails': the stories, trivia, quirks and oddities of their history and, of course, the math and mathematicians behind them. In his unique 'talmudic', associative way, Elran shows the hidden connections between Lewis Carroll's 'Cats and Rats' puzzle and the math of taxi driving, a number pyramid magic trick and Hollywood movie fractals, and even how packing puzzles are related to COVID-19!Elran has a great talent for explaining difficult topics — including quantum mechanics, a topic he relates to some original 'operator' puzzles — making the book very accessible for all audiences.With over 40 additional, original puzzles, and touching on dozens of hot math topics, this is a perfect book for math lovers, educators, kids and adults, and anyone who loves a great read.Yossi Elran is co-author of our bestselling The Paper Puzzle Book, and heads the Innovation Center at the Davidson Institute of Science Education, the educational arm of the world-renowned Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

The Puzzle Instinct
The Puzzle Instinct

Author: Marcel Danesi

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004-02-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780253217080

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"Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers