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This enlightening and gorgeously illustrated book explores the beauty and mystery of the divine proportion in art, architecture, nature, and beyond.
From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. Author Gary Meisner has spent decades researching the subject, investigating and collaborating with people across the globe in dozens...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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"For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can transform our understanding of literature and vice versa, by the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair. We often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites, as different as they come. But what if, instead, they were inextricably, even fundamentally, linked? In her clear, insightful, laugh-out-loud funny debut, Once Upon a Prime,...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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First, find a shortcut solution to a classic word problem in algebra. This introduces the episode's theme: forget your algebra and use cleverness to solve problems without x's and y's. Along the way, you'll learn that sometimes having too much information can make a problem harder. Also find out why transcontinental flights take longer in one direction than the other (not counting wind effects).
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Discover the fun of arithmetic and other simple mathematics. Begin with the game Krypto. Then try out the "four fours" puzzle. Next, see how perfect squares and perfect triangles reveal algebra and geometry working together. Finally, reason out why a negative number multiplied by itself a is a positive number.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Test your wits against the puzzle that likely inspired the famous expression "thinking outside the box." Then apply this strategy to a variety of brain teasers, involving matchsticks, cards, light switches, and other objects in interesting and puzzling situations. Also ponder the legendary physics exam question: How can you find the height of a building by using a barometer?
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a gleeful exploration of games and math, spanning centuries...
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Arcturus
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Think you've got math all figured out? Think again! Young readers can discover the wacky, weird and incredible side of math with this hands-on, inspirational and accessible guide, written by award-winning author Anna Claybourne. This book will show children math from a completely new angle - and we're not just talking about geometry! Inside you will find genius number tricks, secret shortcuts, impossible shapes, cool codes and awesome experiments....
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Take up algorithmic puzzles, which require a carefully thought-out procedure (or algorithm) to solve. Algorithms have notable applications in computer science, but they also come in handy for dividing pirate gold, transporting hungry animals to an island, and solving life-or-death riddles posed by movie villains. At least, that's the entertaining approach you take in this final episode.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Now turn to logic puzzles, trying to distinguish between knights who only make true statements, and knaves who only tell falsehoods. Start with simple cases. Then introduce tricky "if–then" statements. Next, what if the knight or knave is insane and thus has false beliefs? This makes things trickier! Finally, add a third category: normal people who are sometimes truthful, sometimes not.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Why do we create puzzles simply for the pleasure of solving them? After proposing a few theories, Professor Rosenhouse notes that mathematicians love puzzles, especially those that lead to deep mathematical insights. Get warmed up for the series with six brain teasers involving hourglasses, a restaurant order, a biased coin, the numbers on a clock face, and two chessboard scenarios.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Study the famous Monty Hall problem from the game show Let's Make a Deal. Your quandary: A new car is hidden behind one of three doors; after making your choice, your door is left shut and one of the doors without the car is opened. Do you care to switch to the other closed door? Find out why one expert says, "No other statistical puzzle comes so close to fooling all the people all the time."
14) Mathematical Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles: Episode 7,The Saga of the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Learn about biconditional statements of the form, "p if and only if q." Then tackle the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," devised by philosopher George Boolos. You have three yes/no questions to identify three gods: the god who always answers truthfully, the god who always lies, and the god who randomly mixes true and false answers. One big problem: They answer in a language you don't speak.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Ponder probability, starting with the chances of getting an ace of spades when you turn over the top cards on two well-shuffled decks. In probability, it's a safe bet that your first instinct is wrong! Investigate other phenomena, including the chances that your suitcase is lost when 98 percent of the luggage has arrived at baggage claim, but yours has not.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Finish your study of logic with puzzles where you must draw conclusions based on what other people can infer from information they are given. Your first example is the "muddy children" puzzle, in which children with muddy faces must conclude with logical certainty (without looking in a mirror, feeling their faces, or being told) that they have muddy faces. Such puzzles are unusually subtle.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Return to the Island of Knights and Knaves to consider puzzles where asking the right questions is the point of the problem. Work your way up to the famous "heaven or hell" puzzle. Then close with an exercise in coercive logic, devised by noted mathematician and puzzle master Raymond Smullyan. Easy riches hinge on a very simple bargain that sounds too good to be true. Do you accept?
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Tells the story of a mathematician's quest to understand numbers. In her day job, professor of statistics Talithia Williams ponders the power of data looking for answers and spotting patterns in huge collections of numbers. But as the anticipated host, she takes a step back and turns her attention to the digits themselves exploring their origins and discovering the wonder that arises from simple, yet profound concepts like nothingness, infinity, and...
19) Zero to Infinity
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PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized mathematics came to be—not just once, but over and over again as different cultures invented and re-invented them across thousands of years.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Award-winning author Betsy Franco is back with another pitch-perfect performance that explores a range of math topics—from fractions and time measurements to geometry and graphs—in a way that relates math to the daily lives of children. Even the most mathematically disinclined will warm to these innovative poems, illustrated with game-changing wit and whimsy by Priscilla Tey, whose clever mechanical “Numbots” guide readers...
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