Kategoria BISAC: Mathematics >> Recreations & Games

200 New Puzzles -- From Fiendish to Super Fiendish

Su Doku, "the crossword without words," comes with a warning: it is seriously addictive. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a question of logic and a little patience.

Veterans of other highly-addictive logic games such as Rubik s cube, Tetris, or Minesweeper will love the fresh challenge of Sudoku. It s a wordless logic crossword that leaves even the most dedicated puzzle enthusiasts scratching their heads. Here in one...

- Swordfish
- X-Wing
- Double Channeling
- Uniqueness

Start with a Sudoku 101 refresher course in basic rules and techniques before moving up to methods formerly only whispered about in the halls of the mathematics department. By the end of this book, you...

Inspiring popular video games like Tetris while contributing to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory, polyominoes have continued to spark interest ever since their inventor, Solomon Golomb, introduced them to puzzle enthusiasts several decades ago. In this fully revised and expanded edition of his landmark book, the author takes a new generation of readers on a mathematical journey into the world of the deceptively simple polyomino. Golomb incorporates important, recent developments, and poses problems, inviting the reader to play with and develop an understanding of the...

Like the first volume in this series, The Essential Book of Kakuro 2 contains full instructions to the game, along with hints, tips and invaluable...

The most complete collection of chess problems ever published, including 5,334 instructional situations, presented by the world's leading chess teacher

Chess analyzes more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from real matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 600 miniature games, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Chapters are organized by problem type. Each problem, combination, and game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book,...

It's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded--along with everything they'd come to know about geometry? Jason Socrates Bardi shares the dramatic story of the moment when the tangible and easily understood...