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Can You Solve My Problems? Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles
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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. Then - with just a dash of high school math - you’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 puzzle - from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!
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. Then - with just a dash of high school math - you’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 puzzle - from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!
- ISBN:
- 9781615193882
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-21
- Publisher:
- The Experiment
- Language:
- English
- Page Count:
- 338
- Size:
- 7.78" l x 5.94" w x 0.99" h
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- Science and Technology
- Games
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- Mathematics
- Puzzle and Activity Books
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