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Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles The latest volume in the hugely popular Killer Su Doku series from the puzzle suppliers to The Times, featuring the highest-quality puzzles with an extra element of arithmetic. ...

What is 4% of 75?Can you calculate 60 + 60 x 0 + 1?Which is bigger, an 18-inch pizza or two 12-inch pizzas?Join award-winning maths presenter Kyle D Evans on an entertaining tour of viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years...

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles Specially compiled to provide the most deadly Su Doku challenge, this is the only volume for Su Doku enthusiasts who need a puzzle that really tests their mettle. Prepare...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'Packed with practical examples and insightful wisdom. . . A highly enjoyable and effective guide to better thinking' Sabine Hossenfelder'I wish David Sumpter had been my maths teacher. I hated the...

The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relationship unique is that it is based almost entirely on a...

'A superbly written, riveting book.'MARTIN REES, Astronomer Royal'I am overcome with admiration for its range and profundity. An amazing achievement.'MICHAEL FRAYN'A wonderful book.'TOM STOPPARDA groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270784Author Albert ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Praise for the First Edition"Luck, Logic, and White Lies teaches readers of all backgrounds about the insight mathematical knowledge can bring and is highly recommended reading among avid game players, both to better understand the game itself and to...

Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. So why are we so bad at understanding them? The same...

Learn to fold incredible geometric origami models from "The Queen of Modular Origami!"In this book, Tomoko Fuse-Japan's most famous living origami artist-shows you how to create amazing polyhedral models using the techniques of modular origami (where...

A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all timeIn 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his wallet and an enciphered message taped to his abdomen. In...

Kakuro is the next hot puzzle craze, and everyone can give it a try with this new, multilevel series. These language-free number puzzles use pure logic and require just simple arithmetic to solve. So, in addition to being fun, they help develop your...

The magnum opus of one of the world's leading origami artists, the second edition of Origami Design Secrets reveals the underlying concepts of origami and how to create original origami designs. Containing step-by-step instructions for 26 models, this...

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles Specially compiled to provide the most deadly Su Doku challenge, this is the only volume for Su Doku enthusiasts who need a puzzle that really tests their mettle. Prepare...

Do you need to gain confidence with handling numbers and formulae? Do you want a clear, step-by-step guide to the key concepts and principles of statistics? Nearly all aspects of our lives can be subject to statistical analysis. Statistics: An...

Algorithmic puzzles are puzzles involving well-defined procedures for solving problems. This book will provide an enjoyable and accessible introduction to algorithmic puzzles that will develop the reader's algorithmic thinking. The first part of this...

'A WITTY BOOK THAT PROVOKES THE IMAGINATION' The Times How many socks make a pair? The answer is not always two. And behind this question lies a world of maths that can be surprising, amusing and even beautiful. Using playing cards, a newspaper, the back...

The Equation of Knowledge: From Bayes' Rule to a Unified Philosophy of Science introduces readers to the Bayesian approach to science: teasing out the link between probability and knowledge. The author strives to make this book accessible to a very broad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789922636245Author Khalid AlzamiliFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Dr. Khalid Alzamili PubPublisher Dr. Khalid Alzamili PubWeight(grams)...

Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind of guy. In fact, he is the average guy in this...

This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share...

Kakuro is fun - but if the puzzles aren't just right, newcomers can feel frustrated. This collection will ease novices into solving kakuro puzzles, helping them improve and preparing them for the next level of difficulty.About the AuthorConceptis Ltd. is...

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the GalaxyWe...

Game Theory isn't just for poker players or economists. You don't have to be a microeconomics or political science expert to understand it _ discover the theory of decision making and optimize your strategic thinking with the help of Gladiators, Pirates...

What are the strangest numbers? Where do numbers come from? Can maths guarantee riches? Why are three dimensions not enough? Can a butterfly's wings really cause a hurricane? Can maths predict the future? In How Big is Infinity?, acclaimed writer Tony...

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles For those who like to live dangerously and push beyond their mental comfort zone, steel yourself for the second book in The Times' toughest Killer series yet. Prepare for the...

Like its wildly popular predecessors Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and conundrums, packed with trademark humour and numerous...

Sudoku X is a brand new and irresistible twist on the sensational worldwide puzzle craze. It offers something new that no other Sudoku puzzle has offered before, the instantly recognisable 'X' formed by the diagonals.This first Sudoku X book includes 100...

From the end of the nineteenth century until his death, one of history's greatest mathematicians languished in an asylum, driven mad by an almost Faustian thirst for universal knowledge. THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH tells the story of Georg Cantor...

Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in our lives, it feels as if we live in an uncertain and...

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles Push your nerve and logic to the absolute limit with this third collection of The Times Killer Su Doku. The puzzles use the same 9x9 grid as normal Su Doku but with an added...

How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal...

Please note that this Floris Books edition has been revised for UK and European notation, language and metric systems.From the early peoples who marvelled at the geometry of nature -- the beehive and bird's nest -- to ancient civilisations who questioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899618330Author Jon MillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Tarquin PublicationsPublisher Tarquin Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545242Author Clement DeslandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Were giving you the second degree ... in brown-belt kakuro training! Go from good to great with these tough puzzles. Complete them all, and youll be ready to earn your black belt. About the AuthorConceptis Ltd. is the leading number-logic and...

What games can teach us about life, the universe and ourselves. If you shuffle a deck of cards what are the odds that the sequence is unique? What is the connection between dice, platonic solids and Newton's theory of gravity? What is more random: a dice...

In China, lots of excellent maths students take an active part in various maths contests and the best six senior high school students will be selected to form the IMO National Team to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past ten...

A magnificent new collection of 60 sculptural paper models from a mathematical origami master!Master origami folder and author Jun Maekawa is known for developing innovative new methods of folding origami based on fundamental mathematical principles. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641520089Author Marcel DanesiFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Zephyros PressPublisher Zephyros PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *...