So You Think You've Got Problems? Surprising and Rewarding Puzzles to Sharpen Your Mind
by
Alex Bellos
published by
Faber & Faber
(2019)
A follow-up maths puzzle book to the bestselling CAN YOU SOLVE MY PROBLEMS?
Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be: Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides . . . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival.
Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?
Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be: Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides . . . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival.
Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?
Other books by Alex Bellos
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches From The Wonderful World of Mathematics
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Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
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Football School: Where Football Explains the World
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Can You Solve My Problems? A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles
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Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World
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Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World
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Football School Season 4: Where Football Explains the World
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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical Perplexities and Cracking Conundrums From Across the Globe
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Think Twice: Solve the Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong