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Book cover for Marcel Danesi: The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi

The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi : The 10 Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time

Marcel Danesi
Paperback - $26.95

A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzles
Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi take ...

Book cover for Carrie de Francisco: Math Fundamentals

Math Fundamentals : Cooking Up Some Math / Using Science to Teach Math

Carrie de Francisco
Paperback - $44.95

Put the FUN back into teaching math FUNdamentals!
The Math FUNdamentals Series uses games, literature and everyday living to introduce and reinforce basic math skills. Using these techniques, you can make math an inclusive, instead of intrusive, ...

Book cover for Carrie de Francisco: Math Fundamentals

Math Fundamentals : Storytime - Using Literature to Teach Math

Carrie de Francisco
Paperback - $44.95

Put the FUN back into learning FUNdamentals!
The Math FUNdamentals Series uses games, literature and everyday
living to introduce and reinforce basic math skills. Using these techniques,
you can make math an inclusive, instead of intrusive ...

Book cover for Henry Dudeney: Amusements in Mathematics

Amusements in Mathematics

Henry Dudeney
Paperback - $21.95

One of the largest puzzle collections -- 430 brainteasers based on algebra, arithmetic, permutations, probability, plane figure dissection, properties of numbers, etc. More than 450 illustrations.

Book cover for Robert Eastaway: Why Do Buses Come in Threes

Why Do Buses Come in Threes : The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life

Robert Eastaway
Paperback - $26.95

""Deals in a very entertaining way with problems in normal life related to mathematics, luck, coincidence, gambling."" The Independent (London)

Why do your chances of winning the lottery increase if you buy your ticket on Friday? Why do traffic l ...

Book cover for Greg N. Frederickson: Dissections

Dissections : Plane and Fancy

Greg N. Frederickson
Paperback - $57.95

Can you cut an octagon into five pieces and rearrange them into a square? How about turning a star into a pentagon? These are just two of the infinite challenges of geometric dissections, the mathematical art of cutting figures into pieces that can b ...

Book cover for Martin Gardner: Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions

Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions : The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games

Martin Gardner
Paperback - $24.95

These clearly and cleverly presented mathematical recreations of paradoxes and paperfolding, Moebius variations and mnemonics both ancient and modern delight and perplex while demonstating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and other mathema ...

Book cover for Martin Gardner: Hexaflexagons, Probability and the Tower of Hanoi

Hexaflexagons, Probability and the Tower of Hanoi : Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games

Martin Gardner
Hardcover - $99.95



Book cover for Martin Gardner: Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube

Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube : Martin Gardner's Mathematical Diversions

Martin Gardner
Hardcover - $99.95



Book cover for Martin Gardner: The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

Martin Gardner
Hardcover - $57.95

Grouped by subject and arrayed from easiest to hardest, the puzzles gathered here have been selected by Gardner for their illuminating--and often bewildering--solutions. Filled with over 300 illustrations.

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