Mathematical Puzzles: Revised Edition by Winkler, Peter

Mathematical Puzzles: Revised Edition

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles...
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Author: Peter Winkler
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Mathematical Puzzles: Revised Edition by Winkler, Peter

Mathematical Puzzles: Revised Edition

$115.48

Mathematical Puzzles: Revised Edition

$115.48
Author: Peter Winkler
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem.

This Revised Edition has been thoroughly edited to correct errors and provide clarifications, and includes some totally different solutions, modified puzzles, and one entirely new puzzle.

Features

  • A collection of the world's best mathematical puzzles
  • Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof
  • Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.


Author: Peter Winkler
Publisher: A K PETERS
Published: 06/21/2024
Pages: 450
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9781032708485

About the Author

Peter Winkler is the William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College, and for 2019 - 2020, the Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics. He is the author of 160 research papers, a dozen patents, two previous puzzle books, a book on cryptographic techniques in the game of bridge, and a portfolio of compositions for ragtime piano.


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