Download or read book The Pyrgic Puzzler written by Christopher Maslanka and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty mind-bending problems feature eccentric characters, delightfully surrealistic illustrations, and humorous situations. The author offers hints as well as solutions in a splendid tangle of storytelling that provides both chuckles and challenges.
Download or read book Pyrgic Puzzles written by Chris Maslanka and published by Guardian Books. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Maslanka's 'Pyrgic Puzzles' are one of the popular features in the Guardian's Weekend Magazine.
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 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 Another Fine Math You ve Got Me Into written by Ian Stewart and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen columns from the French edition of Scientific American feature oddball characters and wacky wordplay in a mathematical wonderland of puzzles and games that also imparts significant mathematical ideas. 1992 edition.
Download or read book The Moscow Puzzles written by Boris A. Kordemsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-04-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Holograms written by Joseph E. Kasper and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, thorough account, without complicated mathematics, explains geometric and zone plate holography and the different types of holograms, along with step-by-step instructions for making holograms. 116 illustrations.
Download or read book Mathematical Snapshots written by H. Steinhaus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous photographs and diagrams explain mathematical phenomena in series of thought-provoking expositions. From simple puzzles to more advanced problems, topics include psychology of lottery players, new and larger prime numbers, and more. 391 illustrations.
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 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 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 Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous with difficulty? This original collection of mathematical puzzles and paradoxes proves that things aren't always what they seem! Readers will discover that nothing is as easy or as difficult as it looks and that puzzles can have one, several, or no solutions. The fun-filled puzzles begin with The Tricky Hole, a challenge that involves pushing a large coin through a small hole in a sheet of paper without ripping or making any cuts in the paper. Advance to the Elastic Playing Card, in which it's possible to cut a hole into a playing card big enough for someone to climb through. Other incredible 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 Spot the Differences Picture Puzzles for Kids written by Peter Donahue and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invites youngsters to find ten or more differences between slightly changed versions of the same photograph of everyday activities, groups of objects, and other scenes.
Download or read book Bible Quotations Crossword Puzzles written by Boris Randolph and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossword enthusiasts can test and expand their knowledge of the Scriptures, and those well versed in the Bible can sharpen their puzzle skills. Each of the 66 puzzles features a Biblical quotation — all taken from the King James Version — that ultimately appears in a special series of boxes upon completion of the puzzle.
Download or read book U S A Secret Code Puzzles for Kids written by Tony J. Tallarico and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids love secret codes, and this book offers dozens of intriguing challenges with insights into U.S. history, geography, pop culture, and a host of other subjects. Suitable for ages 8 to 12, the 36 puzzles reveal fun facts, from the extent of the Appalachian Trail to what Paul Revere really said on his midnight ride. Solutions included.
Download or read book My First Book of Puzzle Fun written by Fran Newman-D'Amico and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining activity book invites early-school-age youngsters to solve simple crossword puzzles, complete dot-to-dot drawings, do word searches on letter-filled grids, wind their way through easy-to-navigate mazes, and more. Large, colorable illustrations of dancing rhinos, fluttering butterflies, and other creatures of land, sea, and air add to the fun. A great way to enlarge childrens' vocabulary, this collection of simple challenges also helps sharpen spelling skills and explore the world through creative play.
Download or read book The Puzzling Adventures of Dr Ecco written by Dennis Elliott Shasha and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join math detective in solving nearly 40 puzzles inspired by methods in computer science and mathematics. The Tower of Lego, Odd Doors Problem, Spies and Double Agents, many more. Solutions.
