Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection (Winkler Peter)(Paperback)

Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection (Winkler Peter)(Paperback)

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler, of Bell Labs, dozens of elegant, intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain, but without this book, devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or

Mathematical Puzzles (Winkler Peter)(Paperback)

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. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical

Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Stewart Professor Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Presents a collection of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. This title helps you find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it); why you can't comb a hairy ball; and, how to calculate pi by observing the

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities (Stewart Professor Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Features mathematical oddities such as games, puzzles, facts, numbers and mathematical

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Gardner Martin)(Paperback)

Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles (Gardner Martin)(Paperback)

Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime -- as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem.Written

Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook (Poon Janice)(Pevná vazba)

Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook is a collection of easy-to-follow recipes inspired by the show and created by its food stylist, Janice Poon. Each recipe is accompanied by fascinating insider's anecdotes, delightful artwork and revealing behind-the-scenes photos of stars and crew on the

Mathematical Team Games - Enjoyable Activities to Enhance the Curriculum (Lucas Vivien)(Paperback / softback)

Team Games are special mathematical puzzles and problems which produce real cooperation between the members of a team. The mathematical content is that of the normal curriculum and whether you call them games, puzzles or problems they undoubtedly offer a very positive experience at a variety of

Lecture Notes on Mathematical Olympiad Courses: For Junior Section - Volume 2 (Xu Jiagu)(Paperback)

Olympiad mathematics is not a collection of techniques of solving mathematical problems but a system for advancing mathematical education. This book is based on the lecture notes of the mathematical Olympiad training courses conducted by the author in Singapore. Its scope and depth not only covers

Number Puzzles (Montague-Smith Ann)(Paperback / softback)

Written by teachers for Key Stage 2 children, this work helps develop mathematical and thinking skills. It includes puzzle types such as: Sodoku, Kakuro, Arithmagons, Magic squares, Latin squares, Multiplication pyramids and Grand

More Without Words: Mathematical Puzzles to Confound and Delight (Tanton James)(Paperback / softback)

All real life mathematics is problem solving. And all those fascinated by puzzles are problem solvers at heart. But thinking mathematically is a skill we have to learn and one which it is easy to forget. Recreational mathematicians and students can practise problem solving in different ways. In

The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Kordemsky Boris A.)(Paperback)

This is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the

Mathematics for Machine Learning (Deisenroth Marc Peter)(Paperback)

The fundamental mathematical tools needed to understand machine learning include linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, vector calculus, optimization, probability and statistics. These topics are traditionally taught in disparate courses, making it hard for data science or

Transpersonalní myšlení v psychologii a psychoterapii - Peter Winkler

Kniha Transpersonální myšlení v psychologii a psychoterapii přináší výbor textů od různých osobností, které se v současnosti na poli transpersonální psychologie pohybují, ať již v České republice, nebo ve Spojených státech. První část knihy obsahuje teoretické statě –

Mathematics and Its History (Stillwell John)(Paperback)

This book offers a collection of historical essays detailing a large variety of mathematical disciplines and issues; it's accessible to a broad audience. This third edition includes new chapters on simple groups and new sections on alternating groups and the Poincare conjecture. Many more exercises

Fantasia Mathematica (Fadiman Clifton)(Paperback)

Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes is now back in print. Humorous, mysterious, always entertaining selections by Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, Martin Gardner, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and many

Remarkable Lives of Numbers - A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200 (Niederman Derrick)(Paperback / softback)

Packed with illustrations, amusing facts, puzzles, brainteasers and anecdotes - an enthralling and thought-provoking numerical voyage through the history of mathematics. A must-have for trivia addicts, maths-lovers and even

Best Hidden Pictures Puzzles Ever: The Ultimate Collection of America's Favorite Puzzle (Highlights)(Paperback)

Calling all junior detectives and super seekers! This engaging 144-page puzzle collection celebrates the very best of Highlights Hidden Pictures puzzles. Kids will love searching for 1,500+ hidden objects in a variety of innovative seek-and-find puzzles, including full-color, photo and classic

Puzzle of God (Vardy Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Peter Vardy's much acclaimed introduction to the study of ideas about God - now revised and

The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time (Devlin Keith)(Paperback)

In 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the experts, would receive 1 million in prize money. There was some

Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems (Dayan Peter)(Paperback)

Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they operate. This text introduces the basic mathematical and computational methods of theoretical neuroscience and presents

Birdsearch Wordsearch Puzzles - Find our feathered friends in this collection of themed wordsearch puzzles (Saunders Eric)(Paperback / softback)

Travel Puzzles (Highlights)(Paperback)

This new collection of beloved, classic black-and-white Hidden Pictures puzzles features travel-inspired scenes and over 1200 objects to find (with picture prompts). This Hidden Pictures(R) collection is packed with over 100 travel-themed puzzles drawn in the classic Highlights(TM) black-and-white

Mindfulness Puzzles for Kids(Paperback / softback)

Keep calm and puzzle on! A collection of over 100 fun puzzles to keep kids busy, entertained and