LEADER 03520nam 22005292 450 001 9910791749203321 005 20151002020703.0 010 $a0-88385-947-5 035 $a(CKB)2560000000081806 035 $a(EBL)3330403 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000577742 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347939 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000577742 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10561518 035 $a(PQKB)11306713 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780883859476 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330403 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330403 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10729374 035 $a(OCoLC)929120247 035 $a(RPAM)2897521 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000081806 100 $a20111024d1987|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRiddles of the sphinx $eand other mathematical puzzle tales /$fby Martin Gardner$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aWashington :$cMathematical Association of America,$d1987. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 164 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aAnneli Lax New Mathematical Library ;$v32 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-88385-632-8 327 $aRiddles 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. 330 $aThis material was drawn from Gardner's column in Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. His riddles presented here incorporate the responses of his initial readers, along with additions suggested by the editors of this series. In this book, Gardner draws us from questions to answers, always presenting us with new riddles-some as yet unanswered. Solving these riddles is not simply a matter of logic and calculation, though these play a role. Luck and inspiration are factors as well, so beginners and experts alike may profitably exercise their wits on Gardner's problems, whose subjects range from geometry to word play to questions relating to physics and geology. We guarantee that you will solve some of these riddles, be stumped by others and be amused by almost all of the stories and setting that Gardner has devised to raise these as yet unanswered. Only Gardner could fit so many diverse and tantalizing problems into one book. 410 0$aAnneli Lax New Mathematical Library 606 $aMathematical recreations 615 0$aMathematical recreations. 676 $a793.7/4 700 $aGardner$b Martin$f1914-2010,$028072 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791749203321 996 $aRiddles of the sphinx$93704798 997 $aUNINA