Mathematical Puzzles

<p>Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. <i><b>Mathematical Puzzles</b> </i>makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem.</p><p>This Revised Edition has been thoroughly edited to correct errors and provide clarifications and includes some totally different solutions modified puzzles and one entirely new puzzle.</p><p><b>Features</b></p><ul> <li>A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles</li> <li>Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles examples and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof</li> <li>Puzzles that are entertaining mystifying paradoxical and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.</li> </ul>