Mathematical puzzle tales

Author(s)

• Gardner, Martin

Bibliographic Information

Mathematical puzzle tales

Martin Gardner ; with a foreword by Isaac Asimov

（MAA spectrum）

Mathematical Association of America, c2000

Uniform Title

Science fiction puzzle tales

Note

"This book was published previously as Science fiction puzzle tales by Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., in 1981"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Martin Gardner is widely known for his writing on recreational mathematics, not least for the myriad problems he has devised over some 25 years for Scientific American. In this book are collected 36 of his best brainteasers. These are not simply cunning puzzles, but serve to illustrate the art of the mathematician as problem solver, and their solution draws on ideas from topology, probability, number theory, logic and beyond. Fully worked answers are given, which in turn lead to additional problems for the reader. For anybody who likes to solve mathematical problems this book will be both entertaining and a challenge.

Table of Contents

• Preface Isaac Asimov
• 1. The problems
• 2. First solutions and further questions
• 3. Second solutions and beyond
• 4. Third solutions.

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Details

• NCID: BA52419546
• ISBN:
  • 088385533X
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D. C.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 151 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 793.74
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Puzzles
  • LCSH : Science fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA17084268