Recreations 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...
Chases and Escapes
The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit theory, and that the same principles of games like tag, dodgeball, and hide-and-seek are also at play in military strategy, high-seas chases by the Coast Guard, and...
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...
by Ian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Populated by curious creatures whose stories unfold with jokes and puns, this mathematical wonderland of puzzles and games also imparts significant mathematical ideas. Ian Stewart, an active popularizer of mathematics, university professor, and former columnist for Scientific American's "Mathematical...
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...
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
The Mathematics of Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night—or fatter—as he munches on cookies and...
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...
The Paper Puzzle Book
All You Need is Paper!
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
ALL YOU NEED IS PAPER! All the puzzles inside are made out of paper — from simple teasers to extreme brain workouts!
ORIGINAL DESIGNS Co-developed by a mathematician, an origami artist and a mechanical puzzle maker, this inventive book provides a unique and invaluable collection of a large,...
The Soma Puzzle Book
A New Approach to the Classic Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
A NEW TWIST ON A POPULAR PUZZLE CUBE! Invented by Piet Hein, the Soma cube is one of the most famous mechanical puzzles in the world. The traditional challenge and outcome is to build a cube or other structures from all seven pieces.
CHANGE THE RULES, CHANGE THE OUTCOME! The puzzles in this...
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...
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...