Download or read book The Riddles of the Sphinx written by David J. Bodycombe and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sudoku to Victorian parlor games to todays latest brainteasers, this book tells the little-known histories behind a host of puzzles, word games, and riddles, and introduces the extraordinary geniuses, eccentrics, rivals, code crackers, and obsessives who invented them.

Download or read book Number Freak written by Derrick Niederman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsively readable look at the secret language of numbers- their role in nature, movies, science, and everything in between. What do Fight Club, wallpaper patterns, George Balanchine's Serenade, and Italian superstitions have in common? They're all included in the entry for the number 17 in this engaging book about numbers- detailing their unique properties, patterns, appeal, history, and lore. Author Derrick Niederman takes readers on a guided tour of the numbers 1 to 300-covering everything from basic mathematical principles to ancient unsolved theorems, from sublime theory to delightfully arcane trivia. Illustrated with diagrams, drawings, and photographs, plus 50 challenging mathematical brainteasers (with answers), this book will fascinate and engage readers of all levels of mathematical skill and knowledge. Includes such gems as: ? There are 42 eyes in a deck of cards, and 42 dots on a pair of dice ? In order to fill in a map so that neighboring regions never get the same color, one never needs more than four colors ? Hells Angels use the number 81 in their insignia because the initials "H" and "A" are the eighth and first numbers in the alphabet respectively

Download or read book The Remarkable Lives of Numbers written by Derrick Niederman and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know there are 17 possible types of symmetric wallpaper pattern? Do you know what ‘casting out the nines’ is? Or why 88 is the fourth ‘untouchable’ number? Or how 7 is used to test for the onset of dementia. Number fanatic Derrick Niederman has a mission to bring numbers to life. He explores the unique properties of the most exciting numbers from 1 to 200, wherever they may crop up: from mathematics to sport, from history to the natural world, from language to pop culture. Packed with illustrations, amusing facts, puzzles, brainteasers and anecdotes, this is an enthralling and thought-provoking numerical voyage through the history of mathematics, investigating problems of logic, geometry and arithmetic along the way. ***PRAISE FOR THE REMARKABLE LIVES OF NUMBERS*** 'A hugely entertaining pick-and-mix of history, culture and mathematical puzzles.' BBC Focus 'This book is a complete joy. It made me smile. A lot.' Carol Vorderman 'Entertaining and engaging... Once you start reading it's just like the number system itself - impossible to stop.' Ian Stewart 'A fun book... definitely challenging.' Vanity Fair 'All sorts of fascinating mathematical minutiae.' Time Out

Download or read book 10 X 10 Sudoku written by Frank Longo and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sudoku craze keeps growing, with no end in sight--and as its popularity builds, fans keep an eagle eye out for fresh formats featuring their favorite puzzles. Here’s one sure to draw them in: sudokus that add a little spice to the mix by changing the standard 9 x 9 puzzles to 10 x 10. That means solvers get 100 squares to fill in instead of just 81! And the numbers go from zero to nine, rather than one to nine. Plus, the smaller sections within each grid are no longer 3 x 3: half the puzzles feature rectangular 5 x 2 boxes and the rest come in various random shapes, with heavy lines marking out the separate areas. It may seem daunting at first--but it’s fun!

Download or read book Mutant Sudoku written by Thomas Snyder and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Run for cover, because Mutant Sudoku is on the loose! Thomas Snyder and Wei-Hwa Huang are both U.S. Sudoku Champions, and they’ll have you filling in grids of all shapes and sizes, testing parts of your logical mind that have never been tested before. You will marvel at the ingenuity within these pages, and after experiencing the power of these Mutant Sudoku, normal 9 x 9 puzzles will never seem the same again.

Download or read book Maze written by Christopher Manson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1985-11-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not really a book. This is a building in the shape of a book...a maze. Each numbered page depicts a room in the maze. Tempted? Test your wits against mine. I guarantee that my maze will challenge you to think in ways you've never thought before. But beware. One wrong turn and you may never escape!

Download or read book She Who Was No More written by Pierre Boileau and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murdered spouse returns from the dead in this classic thriller. Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan. Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse is gone-so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity... This classic of French noir fiction was adapted for the screen by Henri-Georges Clouzot as Les Diaboliques ( The Devils), starring Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, the film which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. A second movie version, Diabolique, followed in 1996, starring Sharon Stone. Boileau-Narcejac is the nom-de-plume of Pierre Boileau (1906-89) and Thomas Narcejac (1908-98), one of France's most successful writing duos. Boileau and Narcejac both individually received the prestigious Prix du roman d'aventures before beginning a partnership that spanned four decades, from the Fifties to the Eighties, and produced more than fifty thrillers. Their works inspired numerous films, including Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, based on their 1952 debut novel She Who Was No More.

Download or read book X treme Sudoku written by Nikoli Publishing and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle company that created the sudoku craze, comesa title that starts at hard and goes to a level of difficulty not seen in anyprevious books.

Download or read book How to Play Sudoku written by Howexpert Press and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to learn the basics of playing Sudoku puzzles quickly and easily for newbies and beginners, then get this "How To Play Sudoku" guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will rep the following benefits: - Be familiar with the the game rules. - Learn the basic way of doing Sudoku. - Get useful tips in solving Sudoku puzzle. - Be able to solve Sudoku puzzle in the shortest time possible. - Learn how to appropriately choose a candidate. - Solve different levels of Sudoku puzzle. - Amaze your friends and family to your new found hobby of solving sudoku. - And much more! Click "Buy Now" to get it now!

Download or read book Amusements in Mathematics written by Henry Ernest Dudeney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Download or read book Killer Kakuro written by Mark Huckvale and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2005-12-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hooked on su doku? Then move on up to kakuro! Kakuro is the latest Japanese puzzle craze for all those who thought they had reached the limit in logic puzzles. Kakuro is all about numbers, and like su doku it is solved by using logic, with absolutely no guesswork. However, Kakuro takes puzzling a step further: it requires simple arithmetic skills as well as reasoning. But don't worry if maths isn't your strong point. While some of the logic relies on you being able to add up, the sums only ever involve a few single digits, and the totals in this book are never more than 45. You don't need to be a maths whiz, nor do you need to have a calculator handy. You will have no difficulty in doing the sums in your head. As with the incredibly addictive su doku, the fun in doing kakuro is working out the logic that gets you from the starting position to the single solved grid of digits. So if you're bored with su doku - kakuro is the next logical step . . .

Download or read book Ai Escargot written by Arto Inkala and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains AI Escargot, the world famous sudoku puzzle which became the most difficult sudoku puzzle known in 2006. There are also several hints for solving AI Escargot in the shortest and most logical way. In addition, the book has 166 other sudoku puzzles in 11 categories. This makes it very convenient to find out your own level and to learn more! The author, Arto Inkala, is a puzzle creator and a doctor of science in the field of applied mathematics.

Download or read book Diabolical Sudoku written by Kiyo Tanaka and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sit back, put your feet up, and get ready to relax with this great collection of Sudoku puzzles guaranteed to bring a little piece of joy to your daily life. This book features the following: -200 puzzle grids -Hard level puzzles for experts -Simple instructions -All solutions So what are you waiting for? Grab yourself a copy!(Hint: This collection also makes a great gift to the Sudoku fanatic in your life!)

Download or read book How to Fight Loneliness written by Neil Labute and published by Duckworth Overlook. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad and Jodie need Tate to do them a favour. A really big favour. Brad is married to Jodie. Jodie went to school with Tate. Tate doesn't trust Brad. Brad and Jodie are at a life-changing crossroads and struggling to make a monumental decision about their life and love, and Tate--just maybe--has been there before. In this timely, dark, and dazzling new play, Neil LaBute takes a penetrating, point-blank look at a couple confronting the hardest decision of their lives and the aftermath of that decision. How To Fight Loneliness is Neil LaBute's most shocking, and also most tender, play yet.

Download or read book Inside the Cell written by Erin E Murphy and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josiah Sutton was convicted of rape. He was five inches shorter and 65 pounds lighter than the suspect described by the victim, but at trial a lab analyst testified that his DNA was found at the crime scene. His case looked like many others -- arrest, swab, match, conviction. But there was just one problem -- Sutton was innocent. We think of DNA forensics as an infallible science that catches the bad guys and exonerates the innocent. But when the science goes rogue, it can lead to a gross miscarriage of justice. Erin Murphy exposes the dark side of forensic DNA testing: crime labs that receive little oversight and produce inconsistent results; prosecutors who push to test smaller and poorer-quality samples, inviting error and bias; law-enforcement officers who compile massive, unregulated, and racially skewed DNA databases; and industry lobbyists who push policies of "stop and spit." DNA testing is rightly seen as a transformative technological breakthrough, but we should be wary of placing such a powerful weapon in the hands of the same broken criminal justice system that has produced mass incarceration, privileged government interests over personal privacy, and all too often enforced the law in a biased or unjust manner. Inside the Cell exposes the truth about forensic DNA, and shows us what it will take to harness the power of genetic identification in service of accuracy and fairness.

Download or read book Expert Sudoku written by Nikoli Publishing and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert Sudoku is an all-new collection of handcrafted puzzles for the expert puzzle-solver. This is the book that challenges skilled solvers and Sudoku-lovers at the top level—every one of the 320 puzzles is rated "difficult." Good luck!

Download or read book Nostalgia Isn t what it Used to be written by Simone Signoret and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: