Can You Solve My Problems? (eBook)

A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles

Alex Bellos (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | Main
288 Seiten
Guardian Faber Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78335-116-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old?Can you beat Sherlock Holmes?If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way. Pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. Some can only be solved be 2 per cent of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling!

Rezensionen

Great . . . Compiled with a collector's knowledge and a fan's enthusiasm.

Great fun.

Think of the best storyteller you know and the coolest teacher you ever had, and now you've got some idea of what Alex Bellos is like.

Superbly engrossing.

A delightful book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
• Schlagworte: Alex Bellos • Alex's Adventures in Numberland • brain teaser • Can You Solve my Problems? • GCGQ Puzzle Book • maths problems • maths puzzles • number puzzles • puzzle book • puzzle books • puzzle ninja • Puzzles • Qi • quizzes
• ISBN-10: 1-78335-116-0 / 1783351160
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78335-116-9 / 9781783351169