Mathematical puzzles: a connoisseur’s collection
Publisher: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1568812019
Table of contents: title: Title Page  Copyright Page  Dedication  Preface  Insight     Coins in a Row  The Bixby Boys  The Attic Lamp Switch  Gasoline Crisis  Uses of Fuses  Integers and Rectangles  Tipping the Scale  Watches on the Table  Path on a Chessboard  Exponent upon Exponent  Soldiers in the Field  Intervals and Distances  Summing to 15  Solutions and Comments     Numbers     Locker Doors  Zeroes, Ones, and Twos  Sums and Differences  Generating the Rationals  Summing Fractions  Subtracting around the Corner  Profit and Loss  First Odd Number in the Dictionary  Solutions and Comments     Combinatorics     Sequencing the Digits  Subsets of Subsets; title: 2; title: The Malicious Maitre D’  Handshakes at a Party  Three-Way Election  The King’s salary  A Poorly Designed Clock  A Mystifying Card Trick  Traveling Salesmen  Losing at Dice  Solutions and Comments     Probability     Group Russian Roulette  The Other Side of the Coin  The Lost Boarding pass  Rolling All the Numbers  Odd Streak of Heads  Three Dice  Magnetic Dollars  Bidding in the Dark  Random Intervals  Solutions and Comments     Geometry     Gluing pyramids  Circles in Space  Magic with Cubes  Red points and Blue Points  Line through Two points  Pairs at Maximum Distance  Monk on a Mountain  Painting the polyhedron  Circular Shadows  Strips in the Plane  Diamonds in a Hexagon  Rhombus Tiling  Victors on a Polyhedron  Three Circles  Sphere and Quadrilateral; title: 3; title: Figure 8s in the Plane  Solutions and Comments     Geography(!)     Out of Africa  East of Reno  The phone Call  The Dimeter of the US  South from Key West  Indians in the Midwest  The Largest Second-Largest City  The Natural Border  The Uncrossable Border  Department of Odd Names  Urban and Rural  Cities North and South  The One-Syllable City  Washingtons and Feminists  The Naturalist and the Bear  Solutions and Comments     Games     Comparing Numbers, Version I  Comparing Numbers, Version II  Red and Blue Hats, Version I  Red and Blue Hats, Version II  Betting on the Next Card, Version I  Betting on the Next Card, Version II  Gladiators, Version I  Gladiators, Version II  Solutions and Comments     Algorithms     Signs in an Array  The Infected Checkerboard  Emptying a Bucket  Pegs on the Corners; title: 4; title: Pegs on the Half-Plane  Pegs in a Square  Flipping the Polygon  Light Bulbs in a Circle  Bugs on a polyhedron  Bugs on a Line  Breaking a Chocolate Bar  Solutions and Comments     More Games     Chomp  Deterministic Poker  Swedish Lottery  Pancakes  Ditermining a Difference  Three-Way Duel  Solutions and Comments     Handicaps     Finding the Missing Number  Identifying the Majority  The, Conwag Immobilizer  Spinning Switches  The One-Bulb Room  The Two Sheriffs  The Absent-Minded Pill Taker  Solutions and Comments     Toughies     Boxes and Sub-Boxes  Out-Guessing the Hat Colors  Fifteen Bits and a Spy  Angles in Space  Two Monks on a Mountain  Controlling the Sums  The Two-Bulb Room  Area versus Diameter; title: 5; title: The Even Split  Napkins in a Random Setting  Groups of Soldiers in the Field  Ys in the Plane  More Magnetic Dollars  Solutions and Comments     Unsolved Puzzles     Conway’s Angel and Devil  The 3X+1 Conundrum  Longest Common Subsequence  Squaring the Lake  The Lonely Runner  Sorting Pairs in Bins  Unfolding the Polyhedron  Illuminating the Polygon  Conway’s Thrackles  Gridlock  The Midlevels Conjecture  Building Venn Diagrams  A Strategy for Chomp  All Roads Lead to Rome  Discs in a Disc  The Union-Closed Set Conjecture  Comments and Sources     Afterword  Index of Puzzles  Notes  Author Biography