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Title: Amusements in Mathematics by Henry E. Dudeney ISBN: 0-486-20473-1 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1958 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the classics of Puzzledom
Comment: Dudeney was one of the two fathers of puzzles today. Amusements in Mathematics has many of Dudeney's best puzzles. An excellent book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing math teasers for ages 11 up, brilliantly answered
Comment: This excellent collection of teasers has inferential problems in arithmetic and algebra, and includes geometry, mazes, magic squares and a lot of chess-board tours. The answers are often gems in themselves -- things mentioned in passing and left to the reader to establish -- e.g. "... of the twelve ways that eight queens can be placed on a chessboard without attacking one another..." At twelve years old I spent many an hour finding those twelve ways. There is a small problem with the age of the book, first published in 1917. You could buy an airplane for 400 pounds ($1,680) then, and the money puzzles in the first chapter assume familiarity with British pounds, shillings and pence (and ha'pennies and farthings). The Dover edition of 1958 included a preface on British coins and stamps, and another on the game of cricket, but this edition was in 8vo rather than the original quarto, making some of the diagrams very small. I received my copy in 1936, at age eleven, and have cherished it ever since. I still find challenges in it in spite of my Masters degree in Mathematical Physics!
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Title: My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner ISBN: 0486281523 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Moscow Puzzles : 359 Mathematical Recreations by Boris A. Kordemsky ISBN: 0486270785 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 10 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Entertaining Math Puzzles by Martin Gardner ISBN: 0486252116 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Mathematical Puzzles by Martin Gardner ISBN: 0486204987 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1959 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd by Martin Gardner ISBN: 0486207099 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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