By Brian Bolt
A Mathematical Pandora's field has been written in accordance with the good fortune of Brian Bolt's prior mathematical puzzle books. via his personal event, the writer has came across a world curiosity in those and comparable puzzles. not just do they stimulate inventive pondering yet they could additionally open up new parts of arithmetic to the reader. This booklet includes 142 actions: as well as puzzles, there are video games, methods, types and motives of assorted phenomena. they vary from quantity manipulation, via chuffed and amicable numbers, coin puzzles, picnicking bears and pentominoes, to construction shapes with cubes. a number of the puzzles date from hundreds of thousands of years in the past whereas many others are unique, giving each person whatever to consider. there's a precise observation on the finish of the publication, giving ideas and motives, including the occasional follow-up challenge.
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