Puzzling Adventures: Tales of Strategy, Logic, and Mathematical Skill

by Dennis E. Shasha

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Collected and enhanced from Dennis Shasha's popular Scientific American column, here are thirty-six of the most innovative and emotive mathematical puzzles ever to appear in its pages. Edgy, challenging and representing the ultimate in recreational mathematical games, Puzzling Adventures dares the reader to work out the logic underlying venture fund investments, escape a Minotaur, catch a polar bear, play power politics, work out if a witness is lying, spy on contraband traders and verify DNA. An encrypted set of stories and commentary float above the puzzles. They need decrypting to discover their hints. The hints lead to a surprise-if the reader can work them out.

  • ISBN10 0393349993
  • ISBN13 9780393349993
  • Publish Date 17 January 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint W. W. Norton & Company
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 240
  • Language English