1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791749203321

Autore

Gardner Martin <1914-2010, >

Titolo

Riddles of the sphinx : and other mathematical puzzle tales / / by Martin Gardner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 1987

ISBN

0-88385-947-5

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library ; ; 32

Disciplina

793.7/4

Soggetti

Mathematical recreations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di contenuto

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 -- 987654321 -- Time-reversed Worlds -- The Wisdom of Solomon -- Thang, the Planet Eater.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136640203321

Titolo

JMIR medical education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, ON : , : JMIR Publications, , [2015]-

ISSN

2369-3762

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Medical education

Medical education - Technological innovations

Education, Medical

Medical Informatics

Fulltext

Internet Resources.

Periodicals.

Periodical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed