Recreations Games category: 148 books
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book is different from other books of similar content, not in term of the material it contains but in term of the way this material is processed and presented. It does not only study the arithmetic topics studied in school, but also analyzes how these ones can be used in various other areas...
by Barry R. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
"Very satisfying." — Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times. This new collection features an intriguing mix of recreational math, logic, and creativity puzzles, many of which first appeared in the author's Daily Telegraph (UK) column. Requiring only basic algebra skills, classic...
by Stanley J. Farlow
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
There's more than one way to define a paradox, and this intriguing book offers examples of every kind. Stanley J. Farlow, a prominent educator and author, presents a captivating mix of mathematical paradoxes: the kind with surprising, nonintuitive outcomes; the variety that rely on mathematical sleight-of-hand...
Why Cats Land on Their Feet
And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth's rotation in an airplane? Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a compendium of paradoxes and puzzles that readers can solve using their own physical intuition. And the surprising answers...
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
Tactile Mathematics, Art and Craft for all to Explore, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Winner, Euler Book Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America. With over 200 full color photographs, this non-traditional, tactile introduction to non-Euclidean geometries also covers early development of geometry and connections between geometry, art, nature, and sciences. For the...
Speed Math for Kids
Helping Children Achieve Their Full Potential
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Popular Australian author and inspirational teacher, Bill Handley, has developed and, over the years, refined methods of teaching mathematics and learning strategies that have achieved amazing results. His best-selling book, Speed Mathematics convinced readers that people who excel at maths use better...
by Louis A. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
For two decades, an international readership of workers in applied mathematics submitted their favorite puzzles to a mid-twentieth-century column, The Graham Dial. This original collection features 100 of the publication's very best problems, with themes ranging from logic and engineering situations...
Surfing through Hyperspace
Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2001
Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore the all-but-unfathomable...
The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clifford Pickover briefly recounts in this enthralling book, the most comprehensive in decades on magic squares, Emperor Yu was supposedly strolling along...
Yearning for the Impossible
The Surprising Truths of Mathematics, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truth of Mathematics, Second Edition explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical...
Geometric Magic Squares
A Challenging New Twist Using Colored Shapes Instead of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Traditional magic squares are squares of numbers in which the rows, columns, and diagonals all add up to the same total. With a voluminous literature going back some 2,500 years, the universal assumption has ever been that magic squares are inherently arithmetical objects. In this innovative work...
by Robert B. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world? Robert Banks not only entertains such ideas but, better yet, he supplies the mathematical know-how to turn fantasies into problem-solving adventures. In this sequel to the popular Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes (Princeton,...
by Malba Tahan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
“A great storyteller.”—Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
Malba Tahan is the creation of a celebrated Brazilian mathematician looking for a way to bring some of the mysteries and pleasures of mathematics to a wider public. The adventures of Beremiz Samir, The Man Who Counted, take...
Why Do Buses Come in Threes
The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
"Deals in a very entertaining way with problems in normal life related to mathematics, luck, coincidence, gambling." - The Independent (London)
Why do your chances of winning the lottery increase if you buy your ticket on Friday? Why do traffic lights always seem to be red when you're...