Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles

Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles
Author: Joseph S. Madachy
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-05-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486825078

"Fans will find this volume indispensable; casual readers will find it an attractive nuisance," observed The Scientific American of this challenging compilation of conundrums, diabolic squares, flexagons, geometric dissections, other puzzles.

Mystifying Math Puzzles

Mystifying Math Puzzles
Author: Steve Ryan
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1996
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806913049

You don’t have to be a math genius to solve these. Most just ask you to apply basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—they’re intended to trick your thinking, not your math. So come on in, and play your way through dozens of magic squares, mazes, devious dissections, logic problems, weight and date puzzles, coin and matchstick maneuvers, and numerical word games.

Mathematical Puzzles

Mathematical Puzzles
Author: Peter Winkler
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0429557973

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. Features A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.

Math Puzzles

Math Puzzles
Author: Steve Ryan
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2006-03
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402732027

Containing math and number puzzles with solvers, this work includes magic squares, mazes, logic problems and matchstick maneuvers.

Sliding Piece Puzzles

Sliding Piece Puzzles
Author: Edward Hordern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1986
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Puzzle specialist and collector Edward Hordern has selected 270 of the best puzzles from his collection of over 8,000 and systematically presents them in this book with full solutions. Interlocking solid puzzles, secret-opening puzzles, and maze and route puzzles are all part of a wide array of puzzle "art" that will mystify, intrigue, and entertain. Each puzzle is rated for difficulty and no mathematical knowledge is necessary to solve them. Novice and experts alike will be able to find suitable puzzles to challenge their wits and creativity.

IQ Boosters

IQ Boosters
Author: Steve Ryan
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402760075

These puzzles will test solvers' powers of logic, reasoning, ingenuity, and wordplay. Flex your mental muscle with some of the toughest nuts to crack, including Geometracts, a visually vexing boggler, as well as Tic-Tac-Topology, a strategy game for two players. There are also lost, hidden, and missing-number conundrums that add up to loads of brain-stretching fun.

The Twilight Symbols

The Twilight Symbols
Author: Julie-Anne Sykley
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2012-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1780994354

Discover the symbolic magic of the Twilight Saga.

Calculator Puzzles, Tricks and Games

Calculator Puzzles, Tricks and Games
Author: Norvin Pallas
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486157326

Perform amazing feats of mathematical magic, answer clever riddles, solve a baffling murder, and much more with this clever introduction to calculator games. Answers included.

The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!

The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book!
Author: Robert Leighton
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761143864

Fully illustrated in color, this treasure trove features 250 puzzles on every imaginable theme and subject. The book is a bonanza of mazes, word games, visual and logic puzzles, and more.

Ferns of the Vicinity of New York

Ferns of the Vicinity of New York
Author: John Kunkel Small
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780486231181

90 species of true fern allies covered in detail. 85 full-page drawings, 13 keys, etc.