Download or read book Professor Hoffmann s Best Math and Logic Puzzles written by Louis Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Godelian Puzzle Book written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These recreational logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. Written by a distinguished mathematician and creator of numerous popular puzzle books, this volume requires no background in formal logic and will delight readers of all ages.
Download or read book Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic written by Lewis Carroll and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1958-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Master Book of Mathematical Recreations written by Fred Schuh and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The World s Worst Jokes written by Victoria Fremont and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Canterbury Puzzles written by H. E. Dudeney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Challenging Math Problems written by Terry Stickels and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book The Book on Games of Chance written by Gerolamo Cardano and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 100 Geometric Games written by Pierre Berloquin and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copyrighted 1973 by Librairie Generale Francaise, 1973.
Download or read book Paradoxes in Mathematics written by Stanley J. Farlow and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students and puzzle enthusiasts will get plenty of enjoyment plus some painless mathematical instruction from 28 conundrums, including The Curve That Shook the World, Space Travel in a Wineglass, and Through Cantor's Looking Glass.
Download or read book Challenging Mazes written by Lee Daniel Quinn and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1975-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 48 unusually subtle and varied mazes to thread through, including several types which are new to the ancient puzzle form. In addition to the traditional escapes from the center and wanderings through the garden, the book offers experiments with "under and over" mazes, "one-way" street versions, and numbered pathways. 16 pages of solutions.Dover Original.
Download or read book Amazing Puzzle Mazes written by Dave Phillips and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the bridges between islands, follow a trail with no left turns, guide a pinball against a series of bumpers — and don't break any of the rules! This colorful compilation features over 100 original puzzle mazes of 18 different types, each more challenging than any ordinary maze. Geared toward ages 12 and up. Includes clues and solutions.
Download or read book Mazes and Labyrinths written by William Henry Matthews and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With devoted scholarship and an appreciation for what he terms "the lure of the labyrinth," Matthews explores accounts of ancient mazes, the "meanders" of Greek and Roman times, theories on the meaning of church labyrinths, the hedge maze, and more. All important or exceptional examples are illustrated with 151 line drawings.
Download or read book Mathematical Recreations and Essays written by Walter William Rouse Ball and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work offers scores of stimulating, mind-expanding games and puzzles: arithmetical and geometrical problems, chessboard recreations, magic squares, map-coloring problems, cryptography and cryptanalysis, much more. "A must to add to your mathematics library" ? The Mathematics Teacher. Index. References for Further Study. Includes 150 black-and-white line illustrations.
Download or read book My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fun with Word Puzzles written by Victoria Fremont and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining collection of original word puzzles is brimming with games for elementary-school-age youngsters. Thirty-eight fun-filled activities feature such traditional favorites such as crosswords and search-a-word games as well as innovative puzzles incorporating homophones (words that sound alike), connect-the-letters, words that are spelled backwards, words that rhyme and much more.
