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Autore |
Rosenhouse Jason |
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Taking sudoku seriously [[electronic resource] ] : the math behind the world's most popular pencil puzzle / / Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011 |
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0-19-991315-3 |
1-283-42806-7 |
9786613428066 |
0-19-992108-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sudoku |
Mathematics - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Playing the Game: Mathematics as Applied Puzzle-Solving; 1.1 Mathematics and Puzzles; 1.2 Forced Cells; 1.3 Twins; 1.4 X-Wings; 1.5 Ariadne's Thread; 1.6 Are We Doing Math Yet?; 1.7 Triplets, Swordfish, and the Art of Generalization; 1.8 Starting Over Again; 2. Latin Squares: What Do Mathematicians Do?; 2.1 Do Latin Squares Exist?; 2.2 Constructing Latin Squares of Any Size; 2.3 Shifting and Divisibility; 2.4 Jumping in the River; 3. Greco-Latin Squares: The Problem of the Thirty-Six Officers; 3.1 Do Greco-Latin Squares Exist? |
3.2 Euler's Greco-Latin Square Conjecture3.3 Mutually Orthogonal Gerechte Designs; 3.4 Mutually Orthogonal Sudoku Squares; 3.5 Who Cares?; 4. Counting: It's Harder than It Looks; 4.1 How to Count; 4.2 Counting Shidoku Squares; 4.3 How Many Sudoku Squares Are There?; 4.4 Estimating the Number of Sudoku Squares; 4.5 From Two Million to Forty-Four; 4.6 Enter the Computer; 4.7 A Note on Problem-Solving; 5. Equivalence Classes: The Importance of Being Essentially Identical; 5.1 They Might as Well Be the Same; 5.2 Transformations Preserving Sudokuness; 5.3 Equivalent Shidoku Squares |
5.4 Why the Natural Approach Fails5.5 Groups; 5.6 Burnside's Lemma; |
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