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Can You Solve My Problems?: Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles
Can You Solve My Problems?: Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles
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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!
Author: Alex Bellos
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Experiment
Published: 03/21/2017
Series: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.70h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781615193882
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!
Author: Alex Bellos
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Experiment
Published: 03/21/2017
Series: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.70h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781615193882