Good Old Fashioned Challenging Puzzles and Perplexing Mathematical Problems

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Good Old Fashioned Challenging Puzzles and Perplexing Mathematical Problems (Puzzle Books) (Puzzle Books)
By Henry Dudeney

* Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
* Number Of Pages: 160
* Publication Date: 2007-02-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1840245573
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781840245578
* Binding: Paperback

PREFACE
In issuing this volume of my Mathematical Puzzles, of which
some have appeared in periodicals and others are given here
for the first time, I must acknowledge the encouragement that
I have received from many unknown correspondents, at home
and abroad, who have expressed a desire to have the problems
in a collected form, with some of the solutions given at greater
length than is possible in magazines and newspapers. Though I
have included a few old puzzles that have interested the world
for generations, where I felt that there was something new to
be said about them, the problems are in the main original.
On the question of Mathematical Puzzles in general there is,
perhaps, little more to be said than I have written elsewhere.
The history of the subject entails nothing short of the actual
story of the beginnings and development of exact thinking
in man. The historian must start from the time when man
first succeeded in counting his ten fingers and in dividing an
apple into two approximately equal parts. Every puzzle that is
worthy of consideration can be referred to mathematics and
logic. Every man, woman, and c Read more…

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