The Canterbury Puzzles

Author: H. E. Dudeney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486425584
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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.

The Canterbury Puzzles

Author: Henry Ernest Dudeney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description

536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

Author: Henry E. Dudeney
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486796868
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
This compilation of long-inaccessible puzzles by a famous puzzle master offers challenges ranging from arithmetical and algebraical problems to those involving geometry, combinatorics, and topology, plus game, domino, and match puzzles. Includes answers.

Lateral Mindtrap Puzzles

Author: Detective Shadow
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806971353
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The clues to solving each puzzle can be found within it, but you need to break free from conventional thinking and toss aside core assumptions. Ninety entertainingly illustrated puzzles, from murder mysteries to treasure hunts, will challenge your thinking skills, and there are hints if you need them.

The Bogota Puzzles

Author: Bernardo Recamán
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 048684241X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
"A Colombian mathematician assembled these eighty brainteasers, forming a stimulating collection of word problems, puzzles involving chess pieces, sudoku-style challenges, and other math-based diversions. The book includes solutions"--

Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality!

Author: James Buckley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684125464
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
A graphic biography of civil rights leader and American icon Martin Luther King Jr. This graphical biography tells the story of the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. With full-color illustrations and a historically accurate narrative, Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality! will inform and entertain readers of all ages. From his childhood in Atlanta to his rise as an international icon of human rights and a fiery orator who refused to back down in the face of adversity, King’s life story serves as an ongoing source of inspiration.

Amusements in Mathematics

Author: Henry Ernest Dudeney
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752309725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678

Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Mathematical Mind-Benders

Author: Peter Winkler
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1568815077
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Peter Winkler is at it again. Following the enthusiastic reaction to Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection, Peter has compiled a new collection of elegant mathematical puzzles to challenge and entertain the reader. The original puzzle connoisseur shares these puzzles, old and new, so that you can add them to your own anthology. This book is for lovers of mathematics, lovers of puzzles, lovers of a challenge. Most of all, it is for those who think that the world of mathematics is orderly, logical, and intuitive-and are ready to learn otherwise!

The Everything Kids' Word Search Puzzle and Activity Book

Author: Beth L Blair
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1598695452
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Solve clever clues in over 100 mind-bending puzzles

THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES & OTHER CURIOUS PROBLEMS

Author: Henry Ernest Dudeney
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027218802
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
This eBook edition of "The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857–1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country's foremost creators of puzzles. The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems is a 1907 mathematical puzzle book by Henry Dudeney. The first part of the book features a series of puzzles based on the characters from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer. The ebook contains illustrations, explanations and answers to each puzzle and is still actual in testing your mathematical skills and your capacity of problem solving. HISTORICAL PRESS OPINIONS ON "THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES": "It is a book of remarkable ingenuity and interest."—Educational Times. "The most ingenious brain in England ... a fascinating new book."—Evening News. "A capital book of posers."—Daily News. "The Puzzles ... reach the limit of ingenuity and intricacy; and it is well for the sanity of his readers that the author gives a list of solutions at the end of the book."—Observer. "A book that will provide much entertainment for Christmas gatherings ... ingenious puzzles and problems invented by 'Sphinx,' the Puzzle King."—The Captain. "Mr. Dudeney, whose reputation is world-wide as the puzzle and problem maker of the age ... sure to find a wide circulation ... as attractive in appearance as its contents are fascinating."—English Mechanic and World of Science. "An exceedingly ingenious constructor and solver of fascinating puzzles, mathematical and otherwise."—School Guardian. "A book which ought to be highly popular ... it is all mighty ingenious, and very intelligently put before the reader."—Sheffield Telegraph.