My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320324
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
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.

The Everything Kids' Math Puzzles Book

Author: Meg Clemens
Publisher: Everything
ISBN: 9781580627733
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Stump your friends and family with this fun, challenging math puzzle book! Who knew that math could be so cool? Crammed with games, puzzles, and trivia, The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book puts the fun back into playing with numbers! If you have any fear of math—or are just tired of sitting in a classroom—The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book provides hours of entertainment. You’ll get so caught up in the activities, you won’t even know you’re learning! Inside, you’ll be able to: -Decode hidden messages using Roman numerals -Connect the dots using simple addition and subtraction -Learn to create magic number squares -Use division to answer musical riddles -Match the profession to numerical license plates

Colossal Book of Mathematics

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393020236
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 748

Book Description
No amateur or math authority can be without this ultimate compendium of classic puzzles, paradoxes, and puzzles from America's best-loved mathematical expert. 320 line drawings.

More Puzzles

Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
ISBN: 9788122200485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Here are over 300 tantalizing puzzles, brain teasers and riddles by one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the twentieth century, Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the 'human computer'. The puzzles include every possible type of mathematical recreation, time and distance problems, age and money riddles, puzzles involving geometry and elementary algebra, and just plain straight thinking. Often entertaining, but always stimulating, the puzzles included in the book offer hours of fun and relaxation.

Brain Teasers

Author: Ravi Narula
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
ISBN: 8172240317
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
The more you use the brain, the more it grows. Many in this world have never had the ‘pleasure of using one’s brain’. They know not what joy and gratification, what delight and satisfaction, what fun and contentment lies there in, and they know not what they are missing. So folks,here is a chance to catch up with others because, this book which will act as a 'rich protein diet’ that doctors say is essential for development of the brain. It offers to you a variety of thinkers, ticklers, teasers,squeezers and stranglers, that will turn and twist your brain and help you see a broader and bigger world before you. Thus making you proud when people call you intelligent, sharp, witty, humorous, quick, bright and logical.

Mathematical and Algorithmic Puzzles

Author: Pramod Ganapathi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
This book presents serious mathematical and algorithmic puzzles that are mostly counterintuitive. The presented puzzles are simultaneously entertaining, challenging, intriguing, and haunting. This book introduces its readers to counterintuitive mathematical ideas and revolutionary algorithmic insights from a wide variety of topics. The presented solutions that are discovered by many mathematicians and computer scientists are highly counterintuitive and show supreme mathematical beauty. These counterintuitive solutions are intriguing to the degree that they shatter our preconceived notions, shake our long-held belief systems, debunk our fundamental intuitions, and finally rob us of sleep and haunt us for a lifetime. Multiple ways of attacking the same puzzle are presented which teach the application of elegant problem-solving strategies.

Puzzles and Paradoxes

Author: T. H. O’Beirne
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486824861
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
These marvelous, stimulating games for the mind include geometric paradoxes, cube and color arrangement puzzles, calendar paradoxes, much more. Detailed solutions prepare readers for puzzles of even greater complexity.

The Shoelace Problem & Other Puzzles

Author: Ivan Moscovich
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402716690
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Presents a collection of puzzles that demonstrate the principles of mathematics.

Popular Science

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393325720
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
In a society begging to be duped, Martin Gardner, the most devastating debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery of our time, ranges here from science and mathematics to literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. With keen skepticism, he skewers the fallacies of pseudoscience, from Dr. Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the farce of Primal Scream therapy, and he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of "Little Red Riding Hood." Book jacket.