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Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Paperback – June 1, 1959

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Bizarre imagination, originality, trickiness, and whimsy characterize puzzles of Sam Loyd, America's greatest puzzler. Present selection from fabulously rare Cyclopedia includes the famous 14–15 puzzles, the Horse of a Different Color, and 115 others in various areas of elementary math. 150 period line drawings.

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Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination.

Martin Gardner: A Remembrance The worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005.

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Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination.

Martin Gardner: A Remembrance
The worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005.

To those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. Den Hartog in engineering, Martin's advice and editorial suggestions in the formative 1950s helped to define the Dover publishing program and give it the point of view which — despite many changes, new directions, and the consequences of evolution — continues to be operative today.

In the Author's Own Words:
"Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs."

"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" — Martin Gardner

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ASIN : 0486204987
Publisher : Dover Publications; REPRINT Edition (June 1, 1959)
Language: : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780486204987
ISBN-13 : 978-0486204987
Reading age : 12 years and up
Item Weight : 6.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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Lee Roy Eddie

Amazing Math and Strategic Puzzles.

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2015

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Amazing Math and Strategic Puzzles that will have you thinking for a very long time. This book is a 1959 reprint of a 1914 release. Some of the drawings are politically incorrect such as puzzle 74 where the player needs to get out of a number maze. This is one of my favorites although the caricatures of an African American farmer are antiquated from obvious racial stereotypes. THE ANSWERS ARE ACTUALLY FOUND IN THE BACK PAGES. This is an intriguing text for the difficulty of solving the questions and for the artwork which gives a good look into the mindset of American culture in 1914. One would need to research the releases of Sam Loyd's books to learn that his son was the one who Published his latter work since Sam Loyd had been deceased for three years when this text was published. Sam Loyd-1841-1911.

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Dennis Regling

Puzzling, yet entertaining. I'm hooked.

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2015

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Interesting book of mathematical riddles.The math lover will appreciate this book.

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shelly

Puzzle Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015

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Great puzzles

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Creative

A Timeless Classic

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2012

Actually I'm a big fan from the good old days. Mathematical puzzles? My Big Old love.
Here we have 2 of the 3 or 4 absolute giants of the matter (put Raymond Smullyan in). Their father of them all : Sam LOYD, and, and one of the modern poetical leaders: Martin GARDNER for the selection and the edition.
This compilation of the best Classical Puzzles imagined by Sam LOYD has been published several times before, and each publication brings up the same sentiment, the one you have when you meet back a good old friend. That's what happens when you fall in love with a book, and develop sweet warm memories with it.

The format is 1 puzzle by page, presented each and every time by a smart story and illustrated by the drawing of the original edition, a very beautiful vintage look. I love it.
There are some 200 puzzles divided into 2 volumes, they range from somehow easy to really difficult, and some of them require some basic knowledge in algebra and/or geometry, just the basics, and not all of them.

This edition is a simple paperback pocket size, nothing fancy about it, in my opinion any paperback binding doesn't do justice to this book anyway, but it's the only one available I think.

Me? I bought it again!

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The Creator of Unsolvable Puzzles

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2000

If you really like tough puzzles, that is the book and the writer that you were looking for. In one book there is enough puzzles for a human being life.
The puzzle categories are also quite wide from tangram to chess problems.

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Nick

Best Mathematical Puzzles by Sam Loyd

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2010

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Another great winter evening puzzle book to settle down to. Each puzzle has an victorian type illustration and the presentation of the puzzle itself I found entertaining. Some of the puzzles are taxing which is great. There are solutions at the back but what's the point of a puzzle I ask myself.

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D. J. E. Stamp

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2015

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good collection of Sam's work

Pradip Kumar Das

No change

Reviewed in India on August 22, 2019

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A good book

zua04153

パズル本の王道です

Reviewed in Japan on February 16, 2012

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　２０世紀初頭出版された米国のパズル本の代表作でしょう。１９６０年代に日本で光文社から出されてベストセラーになった「頭の体操」もこの本からかなりアイデアを借用しています。白陽社から翻訳も出されていますがやはり原書で楽しむのが一番です。紙と鉛筆、電卓まで用意して一問づつ解いてゆくのが楽しい。ただ図形に関した問題ではイラストが小さいので実際に紙と鋏で切り張りして解いてゆくには拡大機能がついたコピー機でコピーしてあれやこれやと並べ替えたりしないと不可能だと思えます。その点さえ除けば実に楽しめる本です。英語の文章も簡潔で判り易く、大学の理工学部の教養課程の英語のテキストにも最適ではと思えます。回答の解説も親切ですので数学の参考書を脇に置いて精読してください。またイラストが当時のアメリカの風俗を象徴していて眺めているだけで楽しいですね。中国人や日本人を描いたイラストなども「当時はこんなイメージで東洋人をとらえていたのか」と興味深いものがあります。英語と数学の両方の知的興味を満足させる本としてお薦めです。続編も推薦しておきます。

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niteowl

パズルの古典

Reviewed in Japan on March 25, 2006

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現在では入手困難なパズル書の古典 "Cyclopedia of Five Thousand Puzzles, Tricks and Conundrums" から、ガードナーが数理パズルを中心に選んだ全117問が収録されています。邦訳も「サム・ロイドのパズル百科」（全３巻）として出版されていましたが、現在は品切れ状態。しかし、本書と "More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd" があれば邦訳は必要なし。挿絵だけを見ているだけでも楽しめます。

訳書と大きく異なるのは問題の配列。邦訳は問題の提示順がバラバラですが、原書である本書では 'Arithmetic and Algebraic Problems' とか 'Probability and Game Theory Problems' といったように各問題が分類されています。

デュードニーと並ぶパズル界の巨匠であるロイドの代表作。日本の様々なパズル書の種本にもなっています。パズル好きであれば必携でしょう。

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