536 Puzzles and Curious Problems. - Couverture rigide

Henry Ernest Dudeney

 
9780684310329: 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems.

Synopsis

Good condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In his Introduction, editor Martin Gardner hails Henry E. Dudeney as 'England's greatest maker of puzzles,' unsurpassed in the quantity and quality of his inventions. This compilation of long-inaccessible challenges ranges from arithmetical and algebraical problems to those involving geometry, combinatorics, and topology, plus game, domino, and match puzzles. Includes answers.

Biographie de l'auteur

English author and mathematician Henry E. Dudeney (1857-1930) specialized in logic and mathematical puzzles. His column, 'Perplexities,' was a regular feature in The Strand Magazine for 20 years, and in 1926 he published the first known crossnumber puzzle.

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