Recreations Games category: 148 books
The Power of Forgetting
Six Essential Skills to Clear Out Brain Clutter and Become the Sharpest, Smartest You
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
An uncommon guide for accomplishing more every day by engaging the unique skill of forgetting, from the creator of the award-winning memory training system Brainetics
Is it possible that the answer to becoming a more efficient and effective thinker is learning how to forget? Yes! Mike Byster...
Across the Board
The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems. It is not simply about chess but the chessboard itself--that simple grid of squares so common to games around the world. And, more importantly, the fascinating mathematics behind it. From the Knight's Tour Problem and Queens Domination...
by Henry E. Dudeney
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
For two decades, self-taught mathematician Henry E. Dudeney wrote a puzzle page, "Perplexities," for The Strand Magazine. Martin Gardner, longtime editor of Scientific American's mathematical games column, hailed Dudeney as "England's greatest maker of puzzles," unsurpassed in...
Mind-Blowing Modular Origami
The Art of Polyhedral Paper Folding: Use Origami Math to fold Complex, Innovative Geometric Origami Models
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Modular origami is the latest craze in paper folding!
These three-dimensional models are created from a number of small pieces of paper that are easily folded and then cleverly fit together to form a spectacular shape. They range from paper polyhedra to bristling buckyballs that are reminiscent...
by Theoni Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1993
Part of the joy of mathematics is that it is everywhere-in soap bubbles, electricity, da Vinci's masterpieces, even in an ocean wave. Written by the well-known mathematics teacher consultant, this volume's collection of over 200 clearly illustrated mathematical ideas, concepts, puzzles, and games shows...
by H. Steinhaus
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
“What does a mathematician do?” someone once asked the author, and from that simple inquiry sprang this entertaining and informative volume. Designed to explain and demonstrate mathematical phenomena through the use of photographs and diagrams, Dr. Steinhaus’s thought-provoking exposition ranges...
Digital Dice
Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice....
by Martin Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind-reading" tricks work? As a rule, we simply accept these tricks and "magic" without recognizing that they are really demonstrations of strict laws based on probability, sets, number theory, topology,...
by Raymond M. Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him).
Our guide to the puzzles...
by Terry Stickels
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
How many cards do I have to deal before I know for certain that you have a straight?
If two typists can type two pages in two minutes, how many typists will it take to type 18 pages?
How many days are in five million seconds?
If you think these are good questions, this is the book for you! Over two...
by Terry Stickels
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Give your brain a series of workouts that'll make it bigger and better! This colossal collection of more than 200 puzzles simultaneously provides a relaxing atmosphere for mental play and stimulates brain activity. Created by an internationally renowned puzzle-maker, the challenges involve creative...
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...
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...