Safecracking, bullying, marital infidelity and gambling have never before been explored with the mathematical acuity and whimsy of Puzzling Adventures. Collected and enhanced from Dennis Shasha's popular Scientific American column, here are thirty-five of the most innovative and emotive mathematical puzzles ever to appear in its pages. Edgy, challenging and representing the ultimate in recreational mathematical games, Puzzling Adventures dares the reader to work out the logic underlying venture fund investments, escape a Minotaur, catch a polar bear, play power politics, work out if a witness is lying, spy on contraband traders and verify DNA. An encrypted set of stories and commentary float above the puzzles. They need decrypting to discover their hints. The hints lead to a surprise-if the reader can work them out...
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DENNIS E. SHASHA, a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, writes the "Puzzling Adventures" column in Scientific American.
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Skipping the preliminaries, the detective stated his problem: "We have five witnesses whom we don't trust. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sunglass rims, regret ratio, consistent truth teller, blue tanktop, black tanktop, clairvoyant oracle, red capris, bad pile, good flares, bad flares, black capris, brown lipstick New!
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Skipping the preliminaries, the detective stated his problem: "We have five witnesses whom we don't trust. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sunglass rims, regret ratio, consistent truth teller, blue tanktop, black tanktop, clairvoyant oracle, red capris, bad pile, good flares, bad flares, black capris, brown lipstick New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Puzzling Adventures of Dr. Ecco (Dover Recreational Math) by Dennis Shasha in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Valley of the Kings by Elizabeth E. Carter on page 112
- Reasoning About Knowledge by Ronald Fagin in Back Matter
- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner in Back Matter
- Reasoning about Uncertainty by Joseph Y. Halpern in Back Matter
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