David Lewis
Perigee Trade | 1955 | 199 páginas | pdf | 4,8 Mb
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Presents a variety of puzzles, problems, and paradoxes that test the reader's skills in logic and knowledge of mathematics
Presents a variety of puzzles, problems, and paradoxes that test the reader's skills in logic and knowledge of mathematics
Contents
Fun and Games
1. Twisted Topology
2. A Bag of Tricks and Treats
3. A Score of Games
4. The Magic's There
5. Rubiquity
Nifty Numerics
6. Palindromesemordnilap
7. A Pole Vaulter
8. A Timely Switch
Fallacies and Logic
9. If This Is Not a Chapter, My Name Is Raymond Smullyan
10. Thrice Befuddled
11. Better Mixed-Up Than Lost
And Even Dissection of Solids
12. Archimedes Anderson and the Case of the Sinister Plot 93
13. How to Dissect a Square and Other Marvels of Modern Biology 96
14. Geometer's Heaven 105
15. Hole in the Sphere 108
16. Convexstasy 110
17. Great Unsolved Problems 113
18. Out of This World 115
Photons Are Light Matter, Too
19. Archimedes Anderson and the Gambling Candidate 119
20. Once Upon a Time. . . 122
21. A Problem Fly 123
22. The Leading Series of Pisa 124
23. The Early Something Catches the Whatever 127
Shortcuts
24. A Speedier System of Solving 129
25. A Letter Home 135
26. In Which We Are Initiated Into the Secret
Society of Square Root Solvers
27. Heads and Legs
28. Noble Bases
29. A Division in Ancient Rye
30. Getting at the Root of the Problem
31. Or is it 32? Remumbt:r Nembers
Neat Numbers
32. Prime Time 151
33. A Sense of Balance 159
34. Perfect Numbers and Some Not-So-Perfect Numbers 161
Cranium Crackers and Cheese: Problems to Munch On
35. Classy Problems 165
36. LEITERS + DIGITS = FRUSTRATION 174
FUNdamental Ratios
37. Expand Your Mind
38. E? Ah!
39. A Section of Gold
40. A Bundled-Up Buyer
41. A Piece of Pi
Bibliography
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