Amusements in Mathematics Review
With 430 puzzles, problems, paradoxes, and brain teasers, this book is a mammoth puzzle collection, compared with most math teasers and puzzles book available. But what is important is not the quantity, but the quality and charm of the problems presented. Each problem is presented with a full length solutions that makes the book absolutely an instructive experience for the reader. In some cases the author even discussed on how others had attacked and failed the problems.
Additionally the book is fully illustrated with clever diagrams and sketches, which make the reading even more pleasant for everyone. You, your freinds and family will spend many hours trying the vast array of puzzles prented in this book.
Amusements in Mathematics Overview
A fantastic book of fun math problems for your spare time. Will require a lot of thinking! From the book: In issuing this volume of my Mathematical Puzzles, of which some have appeared in periodicals and others are given here for the first time, I must acknowledge the encouragement that I have received from many unknown correspondents, at home and abroad, who have expressed a desire to have the problems in a collected form, with some of the solutions given at greater length than is possible in magazines and newspapers. Though I have included a few old puzzles that have interested the world for generations, where I felt that there was something new to be said about them, the problems are in the main original. It is true that some of these have become widely known through the press, and it is possible that the reader may be glad to know their source. On the question of Mathematical Puzzles in general there is, perhaps, little more to be said than I have written elsewhere. The history of the subject entails nothing short of the actual story of the beginnings and development of exact thinking in man. The historian must start from the time when man first succeeded in counting his ten fingers and in dividing an apple into two approximately equal parts. Every puzzle that is worthy of consideration can be referred to mathematics and logic. Every man, woman, and child who tries to "reason out" the answer to the simplest puzzle is working, though not of necessity consciously, on mathematical lines. Even those puzzles that we have no way of attacking except by haphazard attempts can be brought under a method of what has been called "glorified trial"—a system of shortening our labours by avoiding or eliminating what our reason tells us is useless. It is, in fact, not easy to say sometimes where the "empirical" begins and where it ends.
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Customer Reviews
It Rates a Zero - Daisy - Orange County, CA, USA
I'm glad I downloaded the sample and didn't lose any money on this book. If it were possible to give this book a zero, that's what my rating would be.
Most of the other reviews were reviews of the paper edition, not the Kindle edition. My review is of the Kindle edition.
As another reviewer wrote, the Table of Contents does not have any links to the chapters. In addition, the HTML coding of the book was poorly done. The TOC does not format correctly on my Kindle. The chapters do not have enough whitespace, making them very difficult to read.
The content might be wonderful, but I wouldn't know that. I wasn't able to read the sample due to the poor conversion from print to the Kindle version of HTML.
Some Kindle deficiencies - batpox - usa
I have this paper book, but wanted a copy for my Kindle DX. There are a few versions for the Kindle, but I shelled out a few bucks for the one that said it was optimized for larger readers.
Although it reads well, and there are illustrations, the Table of Contents doesn't work. I mean, it is there (you can see it), but it is non-functional. A bit diappointing, since I'll have to tag the locations for the chapters myself.
I think Amazon should have a bullet list when selling electronic books that tell you things like this.
I'll keep the book anyway, but there was no reason that whoever threw this up there didn't take the time to do it right.
AMUSEMENTS IN MATHEMATICS - Adailton Chiaradia - Itajuba, MG, Brazil
I found this book simply sensational, once it has hundreds of interesting puzzles on math and logic. One learns a lot by reading it.
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