So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind

Bellos, Alex

ISBN 10: 178335190X / ISBN 13: 9781783351909

Verlag: Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019

Beschreibung

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small marks or stains to the page edges/pages.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers wbb0022193074

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind
• Verlag: Guardian Faber Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 178335190X
• ISBN-13: 9781783351909
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good
• Gewicht: 430 Gramm

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be:

Imprisoned by a sadistic logician.
Challenged to raise dogs from the dead.
Trapped on a burning island.
And much more besides . . .

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.

Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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