The Puzzle Instinct
Subtitle: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780253217080
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Mathematics; Philosophy of language; General; Puzzles; Psychology; Games/Puzzles
First sentence: The great American author Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) once remarked that, for some enigmatic reason, human beings require that things be mysterious.