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Can You Solve My Problems? : Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles
by Alex Bellos
Overview
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!
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781615193882
- ISBN-10: 161519388X
- Publisher: Experiment
- Publish Date: March 2017
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 6 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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