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Summary
Peter Winkler is at it again. Following the enthusiastic reaction to Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection, Peter has compiled a new collection of elegant mathematical puzzles to challenge and entertain the reader. The original puzzle connoisseur shares these puzzles, old and new, so that you can add them to your own anthology. This book is for lovers of mathematics, lovers of puzzles, lovers of a challenge. Most of all, it is for those who think that the world of mathematics is orderly, logical, and intuitive-and are ready to learn otherwise! A pdf with errata is updated by the author and can be accessed here.
Author Biography
Peter Winkler is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Albert Bradley Third Century Professor in the Sciences at Dartmouth College. He has written over 125 research papers in mathematics and holds a dozen patents in computing, cryptography, holography, optical networking, and marine navigation. He is the author of Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection (A K Peters Ltd., 2004). In some circles he is best known as the inventor of cryptologic methods for the game of bridge, currently illegal for tournament play in most of the western world.
Table of Contents
| Warm-ups | p. 1 |
| Stretching the imagination | p. 9 |
| Numerical conundrums | p. 21 |
| The adventures of Ant Alice | p. 35 |
| A wordy digression : the game of HIPE | p. 45 |
| Two dimensions and three | p. 51 |
| Lines and graphs | p. 65 |
| Games and strategies | p. 75 |
| New visits to old friends | p. 89 |
| Severe challenges | p. 111 |
| Unsolved and just-solved | p. 129 |
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