A collection of thirty-five Scientific American mathematical puzzles is enhanced to provide maximum recreational benefits and challenges participants to strategize fund investments, escape a Minotaur, play power politics, verify DNA, and more. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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Dennis E. Shasha, professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, has written the "Puzzling Adventures" column in Scientific American. He lives in New York City.
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Zustand: New. Safecracking, bullying, marital infidelity and gambling have never before been explored with the mathematical acuity and whimsy of Puzzling Adventures. Num Pages: 240 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: WDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270. . 2005. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. V9780393326635
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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. Artikel-Nr. 9780393326635
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Zustand: New. Hours of recreational reckoning.Über den AutorDennis E. Shasha, professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, has written the Puzzling Adventures colum. Artikel-Nr. 594614335
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