ABSTRACT

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler, of Bell Labs, dozens of elegant, intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain, but without this book, devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or higher mathematics is necessary.

chapter |11 pages

Insight

chapter |8 pages

Numbers

chapter |11 pages

Combinatorics

chapter |10 pages

Probability

chapter |14 pages

Geometry

chapter |7 pages

Geography(!)

chapter |12 pages

Games

chapter |17 pages

Algorithms

chapter |6 pages

More Games

chapter |18 pages

Handicaps

chapter |21 pages

Toughies

chapter |18 pages

Unsolved Puzzles