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Publish Date: Mar. 21 2017
352 pages
<DIV><B>Puzzle lovers, rejoice!</B><BR /><BR /> Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world’s best brainteasers from the last two millennia.<BR /><BR /> Armed with logic alone, you’ll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then—with just a dash of high school math—you’ll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It <I>can </I>be done!)<BR /><BR /> The ultimate casebook for daring puzzlers, <I>Can You Solve My Problems?</I> also tells the story of the puzzle—from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan. Grab your pencil and get puzzling!</DIV>, “Bellos has added a classic to the genre of math and logic puzzles. . . . Written with cohesive themes, clever content, and a studied awareness for enriching the reader’s mind, this book is highly recommended to anyone who enjoys the experience of an aha! moment.”—<I>Math Horizons</I>, the Mathematical Association of America<BR /><BR /> “Think of the best storyteller you know and the coolest teacher you ever had, and now you’ve got some idea of what Alex Bellos is like.”<BR /> —<B>Steven Strogatz</B>, author of <I>The Joy of x</I>, <DIV><B>Alex Bellos </B>holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books, <I>Here’s Looking at Euclid </I>and<I> The Grapes of Math,</I> have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include <I>Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers</I>, and <I>The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book. </I>He is also the coauthor of the mathematical coloring books<I> Patterns of the Universe </I>and<I> Visions of the Universe</I>. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a puzzle blog for <I>The Guardian,</I> and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.</DIV>
