| #3804502 in Books | 1965 | Format: Import | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File Name: 019217908X | 252 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating book and great fun to read.|By J. Montlake|Over 200 pages of diverse types of puzzles, divided into chapters of similar types of questions, with a humorous, lengthy and explicit solution to each. The author's claim that one need have no more than school certificate mathematical knowledge to be able to tackle these problems is totally beyond me. Apart from a few s|About the Author|
T. H. O'Beirne wrote a weekly column, also called "Puzzles and Paradoxes," for the British magazine New Scientist. He is the inventor of O'Beirne's Cube, a classic box-packing problem in which six irregularly shaped pieces can be pa
Noted mathematician T. H. O'Beirne leads readers through a delightful maze of problems and solutions that are as artfully formed as any great poem or melody. Most require little mathematical knowledge, just careful logic and a playful imagination. Each chapter presents a series of thematically related brainteasers: difficult journeys featuring unlikely passengers and inadequate transport; geometric paradoxes; pouring liquid puzzles; cube and color arrangement puzzles...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Puzzles & Paradoxes | T.H. O'BEIRNE.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
