Puzzles and paradoxes

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These marvelous, stimulating games for the mind offer an array of problems and solutions as artfully formed as poems and melodies. Each chapter presents a series of thematically related brain-teasers: difficult journeys, featuring unlikely passengers and inadequate transport; geometric paradoxes; pouring liquid puzzles; cube and color arrangement puzzles; and calendar paradoxes. Author T. H. O'Beirne provides detailed solutions that prepare readers for puzzles of even greater complexity.

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Author(s)T H O'Beirne
Age11-14, 14-16, 16-19, FE/HE
Published1965
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Shelf referenceA 510.7937 OBE
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/xfhhv

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