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

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

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SKU 9781783351916 Categories Products, Puzzle & Quiz Books

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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.

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

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Product ID:	9781783351916
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	So You Think You've Got Problems?
Subtitle:	Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind
Authors:	Author: Alex Bellos
Page Count:	288
Subjects:	Popular and recreational mathematics, Popular mathematics, Puzzles and quizzes, Puzzles & quizzes
Description:	Select Guide Rating . 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. 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?
Imprint Name:	Guardian Faber Publishing
Publisher Name:	Guardian Faber Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2020-07-02

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Weight	230 g
Dimensions	130 × 198 × 20 mm