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Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem.Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed.Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all th

Who reads Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles?

Author

Martin Gardner

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

1961

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486252117

Category

reference

Subjects

Sports, Mathematics, Crafts & Hobbies

Rating

3.97 / 5 (104 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14