Brain-flexing Balance Problems & Other Puzzles (Mastermind Collection) - Softcover

Moscovich, Ivan

 
9781402727337: Brain-flexing Balance Problems & Other Puzzles (Mastermind Collection)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 140272733X ISBN 13: 9781402727337
Verlag: Sterling, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Puzzles in perpetual motion—that’s what these are! Many of these bright brainteasers focus on ingenious, moving mechanisms, including an ancient Greek door-opening apparatus that featured one of the earliest uses of steam. Check out a perpetuum mobile invented by a famous American mathematician and see if you can successfully explain its theoretical principle of operation. A cartoon depicts a classic Lewis Carroll conundrum: there’s a monkey hanging on a tree holding one end of a rope while a bunch of bananas balance  the other end in a state of equilibrium. What will happen if the monkey starts to climb? Other problems deal with gears and levers, while still more shift to number, counting, and calculation challenges.

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Verlag
Sterling
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
140272733X
ISBN 13 
9781402727337
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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