The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight - Softcover

 
9780393609912: The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight
Softcover
ISBN 10: 039360991X ISBN 13: 9780393609912
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

The most mind-bending puzzles on the internet appear weekly in Oliver Roeder’s “The Riddler” column. Presented by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, an online mecca for statistics nerds, the column attracts a rabid community of puzzlers (including the coach of the U.S. Math Olympiad team and a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory) who rush to submit solutions and extensions.

Now, FiveThirtyEight presents the first-ever Riddler collection, featuring the column’s most popular problems, which draw on geometry, logic, statistics and game theory, along with six never-before-published puzzles. The simplest require a mere flash of insight, whilst the toughest involve deep applications of analysis and probability theory. Can you rig an election? What’s the best way to drop a smartphone? Can you solve the puzzle of the overflowing martini glass? Designed to appeal to a range of skill levels, The Riddler will be the perfect gift for any maths or puzzle enthusiast.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Oliver Roeder has been a senior writer at FiveThirtyEight and editor of The Riddler. He studied artificial intelligence as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and holds a PhD in economics focused on game theory. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039360991X
ISBN 13 
9780393609912
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Herausgeber
Roeder Oliver
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