Riddles of the sphinx and other mathematical puzzle tales / by Martin Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.

Series:

Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library

Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical recreations.

Puzzles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 164 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This material was drawn from Gardner's column in Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. His riddles presented here incorporate the responses of his initial readers, along with additions suggested by the editors of this series. In this book, Gardner draws us from questions to answers, always presenting us with new riddles-some as yet unanswered. Solving these riddles is not simply a matter of logic and calculation, though these play a role. Luck and inspiration are factors as well, so beginners and experts alike may profitably exercise their wits on Gardner's problems, whose subjects range from geometry to word play to questions relating to physics and geology. We guarantee that you will solve some of these riddles, be stumped by others and be amused by almost all of the stories and setting that Gardner has devised to raise these as yet unanswered. Only Gardner could fit so many diverse and tantalizing problems into one book.

Contents:

Riddles of the Sphinx

Precognition and the Mystic Seven

On to Charmain

Technology on VZIGS

The Valley of Lost Things

Around the Solar System

The Stripe on Barberpolia

The Road to Mandalay

The Black Hole of Cal Cutter

Science Fantasy Quiz

The Barbers of Barberpolia

It's All Done with Mirrors

Satan and the Apple

How's-that-again Flanagan

Relativistically Speaking

Bar Bets on the Bagel

Catch the BEM

Animal TTT

Playing Safe on the Bagel

Sex Among the Polyomans

Inner Planets Quiz

Puzzles in Flatland

Dirac's Scissors

Bull's-eyes and Pratfalls

Flarp Flips and Another Fiver

Blues in the Night

Again, How's That Again?

Alice in Beeland

Hustle Off to Buffalo

Ray Palmer's Arcade

Puzzle Flags on Mars

The Vanishing Plank

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Time-reversed Worlds

The Wisdom of Solomon

Thang, the Planet Eater.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-88385-947-5

OCLC:

929120247