Einstein's Riddle: Riddles, Paradoxes, and Conundrums to Stretch Your Mind - Hardcover

Stangroom, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596916656 ISBN 13: 9781596916654

Verlag: BLOOMSBURY, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

A unique compilation of logical teasers and lateral-thinking problems designed to stretch your brainpower and strengthen your mind.

Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience.

Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeremy Stangroom is co-editor, with Julian Baggini, of The Philosophers' Magazine and co-author of Do You Think What You Think You Think? (Granta, 2006), What Philosophers Think and Great Thinkers A-Z. He and Ophelia Benson are co-authors of Why Truth Matters and The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (Souvenir, 2004).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BLOOMSBURY
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1596916656
• ISBN 13: 9781596916654
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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