So you think you've got problems?: Surprising and Rewarding Puzzles to Sharpen Your Mind. - Softcover

Bellos, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783351918 ISBN 13: 9781783351916

Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd., 2020

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Can you beat the Guardian's puzzle-master, Alex Bellos?

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Alex Bellos is a grandmaster of the puzzling world, brilliant on all things cryptic. His bestselling, award-winning books include Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass and Can You Solve My Problems?, and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is also the coauthor of two mathematical colouring books and the children's series Football School. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than twenty million people, and he writes a popular puzzle blog for the Guardian. @alexbellos

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Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain.

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• Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783351918
• ISBN 13: 9781783351916
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 279
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