Puzzles, Mazes and Numbers - Rilegato

Snape, Charles; Scott, Heather

9780521465007: Puzzles, Mazes and Numbers

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0521465001 ISBN 13: 9780521465007

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

This book consists of most of the material from How puzzling, How amazing and How many? by the same authors. It contains fascinating information about numbers and mazes, both historical and modern, with a large number of puzzles, problems and investigational activities. There are solutions and hints to some of the problems at the end of the book.

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Contenuti:

One, two and many; Papyrus puzzle; Theseus and the minotaur; Church mazes; Crossing the river; Hindu number system; Curiouser and curiouser; Sam Loyd; Henry Ernest Dudeney; Puzzling reality; Moving; Really big numbers; Base two; Problems of Babylon; Puzzling paths; Chessboard pieces; Problem pieces; Weights and measures; Pythagorean triples and triangles; Counting on; Networks; Letters for Greeks; The Chinese triangle; Inside or outside; Ways with numbers; Paradoxes; Diophantine problems; Diophantine day; A page of pi; Inventing mazes; Arabian mathematics; How many ways?; Strings and knots; The mathematical mansion; Why do they work?; Number shapes; Celtic knots; Colourful puzzles; Cryptarithms; Chinese puzzle; Paths and points; Further ways ; Puzzle mazes; Calculate it!; Three in a row; Island routes; Curious squares; Number patterns; Miz mazes; The Maya; Liars, hats and logic; Puzzle your way in; Hedge mazes; Terces pot; Problems with primes; Adventure maze; Sets and spots; Puzzling cubes; On average; Maze games; More puzzling mazes; The path to infinity; Solutions and hints; A page of numbers

Product Description:

Book by Snape Charles Scott Heather

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