Mathematical Puzzles, for Beginners and Enthusiasts

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High entertainment value makes this hook extremely desirable for anyone who enjoys puzzle-solving and mental gymnastics. It will provide hours of fun and amusement, as well as fascinating tests of your logic and ingenuity. Geoffrey Mott-Smith has set up 188 problems ranging from easy to difficult — puzzles in mental arithmetic, puzzles based on logic, puzzles requiring simple algebra, and puzzles based on plane figures, the properties of digits and integers, decimation, permutations and combinations, and probability. Solving such problems is one of the easiest and most interesting methods of acquiring true mathematical insights. Try your mental agility on such ingenious puzzles as The Spider’s Cousin. Jack O'Lantern, Tartaglia’s Riddle, Clock Semaphore, The Battle of Hastings, and more than 180 others. Test your skill at board and number games like Sam Loyd's Daisy, Go Maku, Salvo, The Carpathian Spider, and many others. The second half of Mathematical Puzzles For Beginners and Enthusiasts explains in detail the mathematical concepts behind each puzzle. Answers and methods of solving all the puzzles are carefully worked out with the help of diagrams and illustrations. Unabridged republication of 1st (1946) edition. Greatly revised and corrected. Author’s Preface. Appendix: How to extract square and cube roots; Tables of squares, numbers and higher powers. Glossary. 135 illustrations. viii + 248pp. 5 3/8 x 8. Paperbound.