Can You Solve My Problems?: Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles

by Alex Bellos

Book Overview

Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia.

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 )

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161519388X
• ISBN13: 9781615193882
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Experiment
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 7.7"