Recreations Games category: 148 books
by Albert Rodney Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
This book is like 210 individual puzzles while at the same time it is one very large puzzle. Things needed to play this game. 1. A handheld calculator. 2. A pencil with a good eraser. 3. A good amount of patience. 4. At least some interest in puzzles. Age requirement Good for any age if you can add...
The Number Mysteries
A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Every time we download music, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our cell phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. In The Number Mysteries, one of our generation's foremost mathematicians Marcus du Sautoy offers a playful and accessible examination of numbers and how, despite...
How Many Licks?
Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here's the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it's all...
by Dick Hess
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Population Explosion and Other Mathematical Puzzles is a wonderful addition to Dr Dick Hess's previous successful books, Mental Gymnastics: Recreational Mathematical Puzzles, Golf on the Moon, (Dover Publishing, 2011 and 2014 respectively) and Number-Crunching Math Puzzles (Puzzlewright, 2013), a...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
“A modern, smart puzzle book, unlike anything I’ve seen before, whose math and logic challenges will stretch your brain in new ways.”—Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor and NPR puzzlemaster
The most mind-bending puzzles on the internet appear weekly in Oliver Roeder’s “The...
Magia matemática
¡Sorpréndete, disfruta y aprende!
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2014
¿Crees que es posible reunir en un mismo libro magia y matemáticas? Pues, aunque te parezca extraño, la respuesta es afirmativa.
En Magia matemática se encuentran hasta noventa propuestas con las que sorprenderse, divertirse y aprender. Como comprobarás, son muchos los juegos de magia...
by Ennio Peres
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Chi l'avrebbe mai detto che anche dalla Matematica si possono trarre preziosi benefici utili per la vita di tutti i giorni? Con questo libro Ennio Peres dimostra che la Matematica, considerata da molti una materia impossibile, non crea solo problemi ma è in grado, invece, di fornire tante soluzioni...
Guesstimation
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to...
Guesstimation 2.0
Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Guesstimation 2.0 reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything--quickly--and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. A stimulating follow-up to Guesstimation, this is the must-have book for anyone preparing for a job interview in technology or finance,...
by Asok Kumar Mallik
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This book is more than a mathematics textbook. It discusses various kinds of numbers and curious interconnections between them. Without getting into hardcore and difficult mathematical technicalities, the book lucidly introduces all kinds of numbers that mathematicians have created. Interesting anecdotes...
How to Bake Pi
An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
One of the world's most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen in this "whimsical...rigorous and insightful" (New York Times) book
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi,...
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve
What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Data meets literature in this “enlightening” (The Wall Street Journal), “brilliant” (The Boston Globe), “Nate Silver-esque” (O, The Oprah Magazine) look at what the numbers have to say about our favorite authors and their masterpieces.
There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered...
by Eric Reese, Patsy F. Kanter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
THE PARENT’S MATH GUIDE
Helping Your Child Understand Math
Do you have a child that does not understand math concepts the first time round? Do you see their potential and want to help them overcome their difficulties in math? This eBook provides excellent math tips to help you tutor...
The Fifth Postulate
How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The great discovery that no one wanted to make
It's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when...