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Mathematical Brain Teasers with Surprising Solutions by Mulcahy, Colm Kevin;O'Shea, Owen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mathematical Brain Teasers with Surprising Solutions about?
Proves that math can be serious fun! If you like any kind of game at all, you'll enjoy the amazing mathematical brainteasers in this entertaining book. No special mathematics training is needed. With an emphasis on puzzling word problems with surprising solutions, the author presents his mathematical hurdles in order of increasing difficulty. Many appear deceptively simple, such as: How many quarter-inch marks are on an unusual sixteen-inch ruler? Or: If the cost of a bottle and a cork is $1.10 and the bottle costs $1.00 more than the cork, how much did the bottle alone cost? Check the answers before you decide that these are too easy. You may be surprised. Novices may want to begin with some of the teasers in the first "easy" section. More experienced math-heads may want to test their wits with the "challenging" or even the "difficult" sections (some are fiendishly difficult). Including word problems by famed mathematical puzzle geniuses Sam Loyd (1841 - 1911) and Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 - 1930), which have entertained recreational math aficionados for more than a century, this book has something for puzzle solvers at any level. And for the math phobic, it may whet your appetit
Who reads Mathematical Brain Teasers with Surprising Solutions?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mulcahy, Colm Kevin;O'Shea, Owen
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books;Rowman & Littlefield
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781633885851
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Games, Mathematics, Science
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