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My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles)
by Martin Gardner
from Dover Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Don't waste your money
  While the puzzles are intriguing and thought-provoking, the solutions don't explain how the answers were reached. I was highly disappointed.

• Great bathroom reading!
  Very nice. I like the old-fashioned approach (I think the author has been writing books like this since the 1960s) and the problems are interesting and varied; most of them you can do in your head (hence an ideal "bathroom book") but some do make you break out the pencil and paper just to double-check. Highly recommended for interested people who studied Maths to around age 18 or beyond.

• Good for warming up your brain.
  Nice collection of puzzles with varying difficulties, which do not require any special knowledge of mathematics.

• The best compilation from Martin Gardner's Scientific American mathematical games column
  "My best mathematical and logic puzzles" presents 70 of the best of the brain teaser that Martin Gardner published over a period of 25 years in his Mathematical games column at Scientific American. It some cases references to new developments related with specific puzzles have been added.
  Martin Gardner was always especially careful to present in his American Scientific column only new and unfamiliar puzzles that have not been included in classic collections before. Now you can challenge your solving... more info

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