536 Puzzles and Curious Problems
(Paperback, First Edition, First ed.)
Publishing Details
536 Puzzles and Curious Problems
By (Author) Henry E. Dudeney
Dover Publications Inc.
Dover Publications Inc.
30th September 2016
30th September 2016
First Edition, First ed.
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
793.74
Physical Properties
Paperback
448
Width 139mm, Height 215mm, Spine 22mm
514g
Description
In his Introduction, editor Martin Gardner hails Henry E. Dudeney as "England's greatest maker of puzzles," unsurpassed in the quantity and quality of his inventions. This compilation of long-inaccessible challenges ranges from arithmetical and algebraical problems to those involving geometry, combinatorics, and topology, plus game, domino, and match puzzles. Includes answers.
Author Bio
English author and mathematician Henry E. Dudeney (1857-1930) specialized in logic and mathematical puzzles. His column, "Perplexities," was a regular feature in The Strand Magazine for 20 years, and in 1926 he published the first known crossnumber puzzle.
