Games for Math Reviews
August 7, 2010 by admin
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Games for Math ISBN13: 9780394755106 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed At a time when the poor math performance of American school children has labeled us a “nation of underachievers,” what can parents–often themselves daunted [...]
Origami Tessellations: Awe-Inspiring Geometric Designs
July 31, 2010 by admin
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Origami Tessellations: Awe-Inspiring Geometric Designs ISBN13: 9781568814513 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Paper artist Eric Gjerde demonstrates 25 of his favorite tessellations and turns them into folding projects for newcomers as well as experienced [...]
Texas Hold’em Odds and Probabilities: Limit, No-Limit, and Tournament Strategies
July 29, 2010 by admin
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Texas Hold’em Odds and Probabilities: Limit, No-Limit, and Tournament Strategies – How often does each starting hand win against a specific hand or random hand? – What are the odds of your opponent holding a pocket pair when he raises? – What is the probability that an over-card will flop when you hold JJ? – [...]
Sudoku Genius: 144 of the Most Fiendish Puzzles Ever Devised
June 30, 2010 by admin
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Sudoku Genius: 144 of the Most Fiendish Puzzles Ever Devised ISBN13: 9780452287501 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Rating: (out of 23 reviews) List Price: $ 8.00 Price: $ 4.36
A Mathematician’s Apology
June 27, 2010 by admin
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A Mathematician’s Apology G. H. Hardy was one of this century’s finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a ‘real mathematician … the purest of the pure’. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, ‘unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything’. This ‘apology’, written in 1940 as his mathematical [...]
One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Math!
June 25, 2010 by admin
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One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Math! ISBN13: 9780967802008 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. These aren’t your ordinary mysteries! One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Math! challenges readers of all ages to become super sleuths. These fun mysteries are each one minute long and [...]
The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems
June 25, 2010 by admin
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The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems ISBN13: 9780393061147 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner’s immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master. For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American’s renowned provocateur of popular math. [...]
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures Reviews
June 25, 2010 by admin
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The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures ISBN13: 9780393309348 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. A collection of famous mathematical puzzles, taken from a popular newspaper column, features the “”writings”” of the fictional author, Malba Tahan, who describes different mathematical puzzles and solutions applied to real situations. Here’s a [...]
Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles
June 19, 2010 by admin
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Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles ISBN13: 9780486252117 Condition: USED – VERY GOOD Notes: Only an elementary knowledge of math is needed to enjoy this entertaining compilation of brain-teasers. It includes a mixture of old and new riddles covering a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles and more. Carefully explained [...]
Amusements in Mathematics
May 9, 2010 by admin
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Amusements in Mathematics The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Mathematical recreations; Puzzles; Games / Puzzles; Mathematics / Recreations Rating: (out of 5 reviews) List Price: $ 35.54 Price: [...]