{"product_id":"my-best-mathematical-and-logic-puzzles","title":"My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJacket Description\/Back\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that had not been included in such classic collections as those by Sam Loyd and Henry Dudeney. Later, these puzzles were published in book collections, incorporating reader feedback on alternate solutions or interesting generalizations.\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume contains a rich selection of 70 of the best of these brain teasers, in some cases including references to new developments related to the puzzle. Now enthusiasts can challenge their solving skills and rattle their egos with such stimulating mind-benders as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, The Fork in the Road, Bronx vs. Brooklyn, Touching Cigarettes, and 64 other problems involving logic and basic math. Solutions are included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMartin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in \n\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e and his \"Trick of the Month\" in \n\u003ci\u003ePhysics Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Gardner: A Remembrance \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: \u003ci\u003eMathematics, Magic and Mystery, \u003c\/i\u003e one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and \u003ci\u003eFads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, \u003c\/i\u003e certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary \u003ci\u003eCodes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, \u003c\/i\u003e which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding \u003ci\u003eThe New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, \u003c\/i\u003e which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. Den Hartog in engineering, Martin's advice and editorial suggestions in the formative 1950s helped to define the Dover publishing program and give it the point of view which -- despite many changes, new directions, and the consequences of evolution -- continues to be operative today. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the Author's Own Words: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?\" -- Martin Gardner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1. The Returning Explorer \n\u003cbr\u003e2. Draw Poker \n\u003cbr\u003e3. The Mutilated Chessboard \n\u003cbr\u003e4. The Fork in the Road \n\u003cbr\u003e5. Scrambled Box Tops \n\u003cbr\u003e6. Cutting the Cube \n\u003cbr\u003e7. Bronx vs. Brooklyn \n\u003cbr\u003e8. The Early Commuter \n\u003cbr\u003e9. The Counterfeit Coins \n\u003cbr\u003e10. The Touching Cigarettes \n\u003cbr\u003e11. Two Ferryboats \n\u003cbr\u003e12. Guess the Diagonal \n\u003cbr\u003e13. Cross the Network \n\u003cbr\u003e14. The 12 Matches \n\u003cbr\u003e15. Hole in the Sphere \n\u003cbr\u003e16. The Amorous Bugs \n\u003cbr\u003e17. How Many Children? \n\u003cbr\u003e18. The Twiddled Bolts \n\u003cbr\u003e19. The Flight around the World \n\u003cbr\u003e20. The Repetitious Number \n\u003cbr\u003e21. The Colliding Missiles \n\u003cbr\u003e22. The Sliding Pennies \n\u003cbr\u003e23. Handshakes and Networks \n\u003cbr\u003e24. The Triangular Duel \n\u003cbr\u003e25. Crossing the Desert \n\u003cbr\u003e26. Lord Dunsany's Chess Problem \n\u003cbr\u003e27. The Lonesome 8 \n\u003cbr\u003e28. Dividing the Cake \n\u003cbr\u003e29. The Folded Sheet \n\u003cbr\u003e30. Water and Wine \n\u003cbr\u003e31. The Absent-Minded Teller \n\u003cbr\u003e32. Acute Dissection \n\u003cbr\u003e33. \"How Long Is a \"Lunar\"?\" \n\u003cbr\u003e34. The Game of Googol \n\u003cbr\u003e35. Marching Cadets and a Trotting Dog \n\u003cbr\u003e36. \"White, Black and Brown\" \n\u003cbr\u003e37. The Plane in the Wind \n\u003cbr\u003e38. What Price Pets? \n\u003cbr\u003e39. The Game of Hip \n\u003cbr\u003e40. A Switching Puzzle \n\u003cbr\u003e41. Beer Signs on the Highway \n\u003cbr\u003e42. The Sliced Cube and the Sliced Doughnut \n\u003cbr\u003e43. Bisecting Yin and Yang \n\u003cbr\u003e44. The Blue-Eyed Sisters \n\u003cbr\u003e45. How Old Is the Rose-Red City? \n\u003cbr\u003e46. Tricky Track \n\u003cbr\u003e47. Termite and 27 Cubes \n\u003cbr\u003e48. Collating the Coins \n\u003cbr\u003e49. Time the Toast \n\u003cbr\u003e50. A Fixed-Point Theorem \n\u003cbr\u003e51. How Did Kant Set His Clock? \n\u003cbr\u003e52. Playing Twenty Questions when Probability Values Are Known \n\u003cbr\u003e53. Don't Mate in One \n\u003cbr\u003e54. Find the Hexahedrons \n\u003cbr\u003e55. Out with the Onion \n\u003cbr\u003e56. Cut Down the Cuts \n\u003cbr\u003e57. Dissection Dilemma \n\u003cbr\u003e58. Interrupted Bridge \n\u003cbr\u003e59. Dash It All! \n\u003cbr\u003e60. Move the Queen \n\u003cbr\u003e61. Read the Hieroglyphics \n\u003cbr\u003e62. Crazy Cut \n\u003cbr\u003e63. Find the Oddball \n\u003cbr\u003e64. Big Cross-Out Swindle \n\u003cbr\u003e65. Reverse the Dog \n\u003cbr\u003e66. Funny Fold \n\u003cbr\u003e Answers \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that had not been included in such classic collections as those by Sam Loyd and Henry Dudeney. Later, these puzzles were published in book collections, incorporating reader feedback on alternate solutions or interesting generalizations.\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume contains a rich selection of 70 of the best of these brain teasers, in some cases including references to new developments related to the puzzle. Now enthusiasts can challenge their solving skills and rattle their egos with such stimulating mind-benders as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, The Fork in the Road, Bronx vs. Brooklyn, Touching Cigarettes, and 64 other problems involving logic and basic math. 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