Jason Rosenhouse: 4 books
Among the Creationists:Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line
Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Why do so many Americans reject the modern theory of evolution? Seeking answers, mathematician Jason Rosenhouse became a regular attendee at creationist conferences and other gatherings. After ten years of attending events like the giant Creation Mega-Conference in Lynchburg, Virginia, and visiting...
The Monty Hall Problem
The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Mathematicians call it the Monty Hall Problem, and it is one of the most interesting mathematical brain teasers of recent times. Imagine that you face three doors, behind one of which is a prize. You choose one but do not open it. The host--call him Monty Hall--opens a different door, always choosing...
Taking Sudoku Seriously
The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics. How many Sudoku solution squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-three...
Four Lives
A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This "best of" collection of works by Raymond Smullyan features excerpts from his published writings, including logic puzzles, explorations of mathematical logic and paradoxes, retrograde analysis chess problems, jokes and anecdotes, and meditations on the philosophy of religion. In addition, numerous...