Riddles of the sphinx and other mathematical puzzle tales / / by Martin Gardner

• Autore: Gardner Martin <1914-2010.>
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, 1987
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 164 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 793.7/4
• Soggetto topico: Mathematical recreations; Puzzles
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Riddles of the sphinx
• ISBN: 0-88385-947-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822037003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library