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Can You Solve My Problems?: Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles
Paperback
Series: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
General MathematicsLogic & Brain TeasersPuzzles
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781615193882
Publisher: Experiment
Published: Mar 21 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Armed with logic alone, you'll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then--with just a dash of high school math--you'll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It can be done!)
The ultimate casebook for daring puzzlers, Can You Solve My Problems? also tells the story of the puzzle--from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!
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