Dover Recreational Math
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The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: 50 Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection
$14.95 Read moreJoin the master sleuth as he and Dr. Watson examine interrupted chess matches at clubs and country homes, examining the pieces’ current positions to identify previous moves. Rather than predicting the… [more below]
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Smullyan, Raymond M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0486482014
- Language: English
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What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles
$16.95 Read more“The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written.” — Martin Gardner, Scientific American
“The value of the book lies in the wealth o… [more below]- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Smullyan, Raymond M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0486481980
- Language: English
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Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
$11.95 Read moreFamed puzzle expert explains math behind a multitude of mystifying tricks: card tricks, stage “mind reading,” coin and match tricks, counting out games, geometric dissections, etc. More than 400 trick… [more below]
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Gardner, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0486203352
- Language: English
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Tangrams: 330 Puzzles
$10.95 Read moreWhat is a tangram? It is more easily seen and understood than defined in words. But to put it briefly, it is a geometric dissection puzzle in which seven standard pieces (five triangles, one square, o… [more below]
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Read, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1965
- ISBN10: 0486214834
- Language: English
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The Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll: Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale
$15.95 Add to cartWhimsically and delightfully presented mathematical recreations by the author of Alice in Wonderland are solved by arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, differential calculus and transcendental… [more below]
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 1958
- ISBN10: 0486204936
- Language: English
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Mathematics and Chess
$14.95 Add to cart99 puzzles built around the chessboard. Arithmetical and probability problems, chessboard recreations, geometrical puzzles, mathematical amusements and games, more. Solutions.
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Petkovic, Miodrag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0486294323
- Language: English
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Lewis Carroll’s Games and Puzzles
$9.95 Add to cartForty-two tantalizing teasers – most by the creator of Alice in Wonderland and published here for the first time – Cakes in a Row, Alice”s Multiplication Tables, Looking-Glass Time, Arithmetical Croq… [more below]
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0486269221
- Language: English
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Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty
$12.95 Add to cartCharacters from Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. The charmingly illustrated challenges range fr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Smullyan, Raymond M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0486482006
- Language: English
