Can You Solve My Problems?: Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books) (eBook)

Alex Bellos (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
352 Seiten
The Experiment, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-61519-395-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Puzzle lovers, rejoice! Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia. Armed with logic alone, you'll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Thenwith just a dash of high school mathyou'll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It can be done!) The ultimate casebook for daring puzzlers, Can You Solve My Problems? also tells the story of the puzzlefrom ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
• Reihe/Serie: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
• Zusatzinfo: 180 B&W illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• Schlagworte: Active • Akari • alcuin • amusements in mathematics • ancient math problems • ancient math puzzles • Anti • area maze • Black • Book • brain • Brainteasers • caliban • calibans will • challenge • cheryls birthday • cheryls birthday solution • Classic • classic brainteasers • classic puzzles • coin problems • coin tricks • columbus problem • Connection • Conservatism • crossword • Democrats • difficult • edouard lucas • Empathy • Euclid • Example • exercise • Fermat's Last Theorem • Freeman Dyson • frogs and toads • frogs toads • Fun • Game • gaspard bachet • GAUSS • gay • Geometry • George Gamow • Gift • Guide • handshake problem • Heartwarming • henry dudeney • herugolf • Holiday • Homophobic • Hope • hubert phillips • Human Interest • Humanity • Idea • Ideas • Ideology • Illusion • Inspirational • Japanese • japanese math puzzles • japanese puzzles • john horton conway • judgements • Jumble • kobon fujimura • lee sallows • Lewis Carroll • Liberalism • List • Logic • logic brainteasers • logic problems • logic puzzles • martin gardner • marvin stern • matchstick problems • Math • math brainteasers • Math Problems • math puzzles • m c k tweedie • media • Memory • menseki meiro • murdle • Muslim • naoki inaba • Narratives • Nazi • Neo • nikoli • nob yoshigahara • Number • opinions • overcome • Pattern • perception • peter guthrie tait • piet hein • Political • Prejudice • Probability • Problem • Puzzle • question • Racism • Radicalization • Real Life • Refugees • Republicans • Riddle • rights • rouse ball • Sam Loyd • sangaku • Sharp • shikaku • Slitherlink • smith jones and robinson • Social • Society • Solitaire • Solution • solve • Story • Sudoku • Supremacy • tangloid • Tatami • teach a lesson • Teaser • the canterbury puzzles • thomas dilworth • Trivia • Trump • White • william fitch cheney • william whiston • World Peace • Xenophobia • zebra puzzle
• ISBN-10: 1-61519-395-2 / 1615193952
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61519-395-0 / 9781615193950