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Mathematical Puzzles
Contributor(s): Winkler, Peter (Author)
ISBN: 0367206927     ISBN-13: 9780367206925
Publisher: A K PETERS
OUR PRICE:   $32.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | Recreations & Games
- Mathematics | Logic
Dewey: 793.74
LCCN: 2020034978
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.94 lbs) 410 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

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.