Amusements in Mathematics
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One of the largest puzzle collections -- 430 brainteasers based on algebra, arithmetic, permutations, probability, plane figure dissection, properties of numbers, etc. Intriguing, ...
Dover Publications
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Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrums
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These pun-studded fables by a popular science writer make complicated mathematical concepts accessible and fun. Twelve essays take a playful approach to mathematics, investigating ...
Dover Publications
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Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games
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This book was the very first collection of Gardner's enormously popular 'Scientific American' columns, and its puzzles remain fresh and fascinating. Gardner has added a new afterwo...
University of Chicago Press
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How Long Is a Piece of String?: More Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life
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Dip into this intriguing book and discover the astonishing "37% rule" for blind dates, the avoidance tactic of the gentleman's urinal, and some extraordinary scams that have been d...
Robson Books
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Math-A-Day: A Book of Days for Your Mathmematical Year
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This entertaining book of mathematical days exercises the brain with confounding puzzles, intriguing math problems, and, of course, detailed solutions to all the conundrums. Reader...
Wide World Publishing
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Mathematical Puzzles
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Bizarre imagination, originality, trickiness, whimsy characterize puzzles of Sam Loyd, America's greatest puzzler. Present selection from fabulously rare Cyclopedia includes the fa...
Dover Publications
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Mathematical Recreations and Essays
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This classic work offers scores of stimulating, mind-expanding games and puzzles: arithmetical and geometrical problems, chessboard recreations, magic squares, map-coloring problem...
Dover Publications
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Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas
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""Nonplussed!," as the title suggests, is a marvelous study of some two dozen choice mathematical problems that boggle the mind. Unlike so many books on recreational math, Havil do...
Princeton University Press
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Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathematics
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Many of the most important mathematical concepts were developed from recreational problems. This book uses problems, puzzles, and games to teach students how to think critically. I...
Dover Publications
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Puzzles in Math and Logic
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PUZZLES IN MATH AND LOGIC presents, for both the consternation and satisfaction of the reader, fully 100 intriguing problems based on permutations and combinations, properties of n...
Dover Publications
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The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems
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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....
W. W. Norton & Company
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The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems
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Grouped by subject and arrayed from easiest to hardest, the puzzles gathered here have been selected by Gardner for their illuminating--and often bewildering--solutions. Filled wit...
W. W. Norton & Company
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The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge
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Grab a pencil. Relax. Then take off on a mind-boggling journey to the ultimate frontier of math, mind, and meaning as acclaimed author Clifford Pickover, Dorothy, and Dr. Oz explor...
Cambridge University Press
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The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations
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Most popular Russian puzzle book ever published. Marvelously varied puzzles ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Lavishly illustrated with clear diagrams and ...
Dover Publications
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Why Do Buses Come in Threes: The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life
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""Deals in a very entertaining way with problems in normal life related to mathematics, luck, coincidence, gambling."" The Independent (London) Why do your chances of winning t...
John Wiley & Sons
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