My Best Puzzles in Mathematics
Author | : Hubert Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hubert Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2013-04-10 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0486320324 |
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.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 1986-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0486252116 |
Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem. Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed. Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all that is needed to solve a puzzle is the ability to think logically and clearly, to be "on the alert for surprising, off-beat angles...that strange hidden factor that everyone else had overlooked." Fully illustrated, this engaging collection will appeal to parents and children, amateur mathematicians, scientists, and students alike, and may, as the author writes, make the reader "want to study the subject in earnest" and explains "some of the inviting paths that wind away from the problems into lusher areas of the mathematical jungle." 65 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Aaron J. Friedland |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780486222561 |
Selected brain teasers requiring geometric, algebraic, and logical solutions
Author | : Peter Winkler |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0429557973 |
Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. Features A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.
Author | : Steve Ryan |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780806913049 |
You don’t have to be a math genius to solve these. Most just ask you to apply basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—they’re intended to trick your thinking, not your math. So come on in, and play your way through dozens of magic squares, mazes, devious dissections, logic problems, weight and date puzzles, coin and matchstick maneuvers, and numerical word games.
Author | : Miodrag Petkovi_ |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2009-09-02 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0821848143 |
This entertaining book presents a collection of 180 famous mathematical puzzles and intriguing elementary problems that great mathematicians have posed, discussed, and/or solved. The selected problems do not require advanced mathematics, making this book accessible to a variety of readers. Mathematical recreations offer a rich playground for both amateur and professional mathematicians. Believing that creative stimuli and aesthetic considerations are closely related, great mathematicians from ancient times to the present have always taken an interest in puzzles and diversions. The goal of this book is to show that famous mathematicians have all communicated brilliant ideas, methodological approaches, and absolute genius in mathematical thoughts by using recreational mathematics as a framework. Concise biographies of many mathematicians mentioned in the text are also included. The majority of the mathematical problems presented in this book originated in number theory, graph theory, optimization, and probability. Others are based on combinatorial and chess problems, while still others are geometrical and arithmetical puzzles. This book is intended to be both entertaining as well as an introduction to various intriguing mathematical topics and ideas. Certainly, many stories and famous puzzles can be very useful to prepare classroom lectures, to inspire and amuse students, and to instill affection for mathematics.
Author | : Hubert Phillips |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1961-01-01 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0486201198 |
Emphasizes "the inferential or logical puzzle." "100 puzzles, full solutions"--Back cover.
Author | : Raymond M. Smullyan |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-08-21 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0486315770 |
These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.
Author | : Adam Hart-Davis |
Publisher | : Orient Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2006-11 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9788122202533 |
Numbers can be fun! You will find math puzzles everywhere; in pizzas, mirrors, bicycles, candy, ice creams; even in a pirate's treasure and ancient pyramid. Start simple: imagine you have got six pink socks and six yellow socks in a drawer. How many must you take out to get a pair? Then suppose you've got six pairs of pink gloves and six pair of yellow ones. Now how may do you have to take out to get a pair? Look carefully, the question's harder than you think! You will be burning up those brain cells in no time and challenging all your friends to a game of wits.