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 Poker Logic Puzzles written by Mark Zegarelli and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These logic puzzles bring a new element to the table: the super-hot game of poker. Each question tests your reasoning on questions with a poker setting--for example, try to figure out which person has a better hand using your powers of deduction. It's a sure winner.
Download or read book Sit and Solve Boggle Logic Puzzles written by Mark Zegarelli and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1972, BOGGLE has been a family favorite, and this twist on the game provides fans of the wildly popular Sit & Solve� series with a heap of word-finding fun. Solvers are given just a few letters on a 4x4 BOGGLE board, as well as a list of words to find. Using ordinary BOGGLE rules (they can spell words by moving from letter to letter vertically, horizontally, or diagonally without using the same letter twice) they have to deduce the location of the remaining letters. The combination of logic and wordplay makes this a real treat. BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro and is used with permission. � 2007 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.
Download or read book Logic Puzzles written by Mark Zegarelli and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers cooped up in their seats can at least think out of the box! That’s what logic puzzles demand: at first read, these tough little problems seem to provide barely enough information to find the answer. But look again, use your deductive reasoning to eliminate false possibilities, and you’ll reach a solution. Figure out where each of the three provinces in the kingdom of Farflungus is located—and which of three princes rules it. Join Jasmyn for a planetary shopping spree—and try to discover the order in which she visited four planets, and what she bought. The time will fly by!
Download or read book Challenging Logic Puzzles written by Barry R. Clarke and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do you think logically? Find out with these puzzles. But don't forget the degree of difficulty increases as you go.
Download or read book Legendary Logic Puzzles written by Kurt Smith and published by Puzzlewright. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 400 pages of puzzles, this collection is big, mind-bending fun! Each conundrum is perfectly constructed to perplex and mystify: Some are stories that provide only slight information to guide you; others resemble a poker game, played in settings from Vegas to Monte Carlo. Still more mislead you with false statements. Theyre an entertaining way to develop your powers of deduction!
Download or read book The Biggest Bluff written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Download or read book Logic Puzzles written by Norman D. Willis and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have fun while you expand your powers of deductive reasoning! Every one of these puzzles calls for conclusions based only on the information provided; the answers don't depend on previous knowledge, memory, wordplay, or deception--just a logical mind. Accept the alternatives that lead to the correct response and discard all faulty assumptions until you've arrived at the only possibility that makes sense. There are eight kinds of puzzles, and in most cases diagrams help organize your results. Here's one example: "A supermarket theft has occurred. Someone took a fully loaded cart without paying for the groceries. One of the three suspects is guilty--but which one? The guilty party's statement is true; the other two are false. Who is guilty?" A. B took the cart loaded with groceries B. A's statement is true C. A's statement is false Answer: C is the guilty party.
Download or read book Pandas Cookbook written by Theodore Petrou and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 95 hands-on recipes to leverage the power of pandas for efficient scientific computation and data analysis About This Book Use the power of pandas to solve most complex scientific computing problems with ease Leverage fast, robust data structures in pandas to gain useful insights from your data Practical, easy to implement recipes for quick solutions to common problems in data using pandas Who This Book Is For This book is for data scientists, analysts and Python developers who wish to explore data analysis and scientific computing in a practical, hands-on manner. The recipes included in this book are suitable for both novice and advanced users, and contain helpful tips, tricks and caveats wherever necessary. Some understanding of pandas will be helpful, but not mandatory. What You Will Learn Master the fundamentals of pandas to quickly begin exploring any dataset Isolate any subset of data by properly selecting and querying the data Split data into independent groups before applying aggregations and transformations to each group Restructure data into tidy form to make data analysis and visualization easier Prepare real-world messy datasets for machine learning Combine and merge data from different sources through pandas SQL-like operations Utilize pandas unparalleled time series functionality Create beautiful and insightful visualizations through pandas direct hooks to Matplotlib and Seaborn In Detail This book will provide you with unique, idiomatic, and fun recipes for both fundamental and advanced data manipulation tasks with pandas. Some recipes focus on achieving a deeper understanding of basic principles, or comparing and contrasting two similar operations. Other recipes will dive deep into a particular dataset, uncovering new and unexpected insights along the way. The pandas library is massive, and it's common for frequent users to be unaware of many of its more impressive features. The official pandas documentation, while thorough, does not contain many useful examples of how to piece together multiple commands like one would do during an actual analysis. This book guides you, as if you were looking over the shoulder of an expert, through practical situations that you are highly likely to encounter. Many advanced recipes combine several different features across the pandas library to generate results. Style and approach The author relies on his vast experience teaching pandas in a professional setting to deliver very detailed explanations for each line of code in all of the recipes. All code and dataset explanations exist in Jupyter Notebooks, an excellent interface for exploring data.
Download or read book Puzzles in Math and Logic written by Aaron J. Friedland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1970 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected brain teasers requiring geometric, algebraic, and logical solutions
Download or read book Posh Logic written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complement your style while challenging your mind with this smart and sophisticated book featuring 100 number and word logic puzzles. The contemporary tactile cover design makes this a stylish accessory that will go with anything and fit nicely into a purse or tote. The perfect gift for any female puzzler, Posh Logic is a great way to sharpen the mind, while looking good doing it.
Download or read book The Mathematics of Poker written by Bill Chen and published by Conjelco. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the highest level of poker have been dominated by players who have learned the game by playing it, road gamblers' who have cultivated intuition for the game and are adept at reading other players' hands from betting patterns and physical tells. Over the last five to ten years, a whole new breed has risen to prominence within the poker community. Applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to poker and sharing the information across the Internet, these players have challenged many of the assumptions that underlay traditional approaches to the game.'
Download or read book Fold written by Tom Campbell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five friends. One year. All bets are off. Reading, 2009. It may not be Vegas, but for Nick, Doug, Vijay, Alan and Simon, it's as good as they're going to get. Each in their forties, and beset by anxieties, flaws and frustrations, they meet monthly in each other's houses for a 'friendly' game of poker, enabling Doug to show off his newly-minted wealth, Simon to insist on serving only red wine and goats' cheese and Nick - swimming in a cocktail of envy, fear, bravado and disappointment - to make increasingly desperate attempts to bring an end to his interminable losing streak. While Vijay meticulously records every win and loss on his spreadsheet, and Alan frets about his propensity to break into sweat and his inability to get his wife pregnant, Nick becomes obsessed with the idea of engineering Doug's downfall: Doug, who with his big house, his successful business and his appalling taste is both everything that Nick aspires to and resents. Convinced of the heroic nature of his task, he aims to triumph over Doug in poker, as well as in life, and in doing so he comes into troubling proximity to Sophia, Doug's clever and beautiful wife ...
Download or read book Logic Puzzles to Bend Your Brain written by Kurt Smith and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logic, math, and fun come all wrapped up in one tricky puzzle package. Each little story gives you just enough information to determine what's bigger, who weighs more, how much gets sold, and lots of other confounding braintwisters. To make it just a little easier, every puzzle has a chart to help you organize and work out the all facts in your possession.
Download or read book Challenge Your Brain Math and Logic Puzzles written by Dave Tuller and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give your brain a workout on the type of brainteasers that challenge the best solvers at the World Puzzle Championships. They're tough, but fun, and the feeling of satisfaction you get when you succeed is simply unbeatable. Some of the puzzles are oldies but goodies, like battleships--and its many variants--where you search for a fleet hidden within a grid. In "Eminent Domain," try to determine which blanks cells are owned by the numbered ones. For "Hex Loops," locate a path that travels through adjacent hexagons: the trick is, it has to end where it started, and the lines can't touch or cross. From Snaky Tiles to Spiral Galaxies, these Mensa-level conundrums will get your mind in shape.
Download or read book Logic Made Easy written by Samuel James and published by Samuel Inbaraja S. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world increasingly driven by data and technology, the ability to think logically and make sound decisions is more crucial than ever. Logical analysis forms the bedrock of rational thinking, guiding us through complex problems and helping us arrive at reasoned conclusions. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly models like ChatGPT, we now have unprecedented tools at our disposal to enhance our logical thinking processes. Logical analysis, at its core, involves the systematic examination and evaluation of information to derive meaningful insights and conclusions. It provides a structured framework for organizing thoughts, identifying patterns, and making informed judgments. When coupled with AI capabilities, such as machine learning algorithms and natural language processing, the potential for unlocking new levels of understanding and innovation becomes limitless. Throughout this book, we will delve into a series of case studies that showcase the practical applications of logical analysis with AI in diverse contexts. From deciphering complex data sets to optimizing resource allocation, each chapter will explore real-world scenarios where these methodologies have been instrumental in driving success and achieving desired outcomes.
Download or read book Loopy Logic Problems and Other Puzzles written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treat for the eye as well as the mind,these beautifully designed and intellectuallystimulating challenges werecreated by one of the world’s mostinnovative puzzlemakers. Sprinkledwith popular science factoids, 85visual puzzles include several classicsattributed to important mathematiciansand philosophers, including Galileo,Fibonacci, Foucault, Rott, Cantor,Sierpinski, and Aristotle. Solutions.Reprint of the Sterling PublishingCompany, New York, 2006 edition.
