Recreations Games category: 148 books
The Proof and the Pudding
What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Tie on your apron and step into Jim Henle's kitchen as he demonstrates how two equally savory pursuits—cooking and mathematics—have more in common than you realize. A tasty dish for gourmets of popular math, The Proof and the Pudding offers a witty and flavorful blend of mathematical treats and...
Why Are We Conscious?
A Scientist’s Take on Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
There are two huge gaps in scientific theory. One, the contradiction between classical and quantum mechanics, is discussed in many publications. The other, the total failure to explain why anything made of atoms (such as ourselves) can be conscious, has little acknowledgement. The main thesis of this...
by John A. Adam
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
How heavy is that cloud? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions like these while outdoors, and wondered how you might figure out the answers, this is a book for you. An entertaining and informative...
The Gödelian Puzzle Book
Puzzles, Paradoxes and Proofs
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
These brand-new recreational logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. Created by the celebrated logician Raymond Smullyan, the puzzles require no...
Four Lives
A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This "best of" collection of works by Raymond Smullyan features excerpts from his published writings, including logic puzzles, explorations of mathematical logic and paradoxes, retrograde analysis chess problems, jokes and anecdotes, and meditations on the philosophy of religion. In addition, numerous...
The Magical Maze
Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1998
Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze—a maze in your head—a maze of ideas, a maze of logic. And that maze in your mind is a powerful tool for understanding an even bigger...
Do Dice Play God?
The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictable
We would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds...
by Raymond Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Puzzle-lovers of all ages will gobble up this smorgasbord of riddles, mysteries, and logic problems. The fanciful, original collection begins with arithmetic puzzles for younger readers. Advancing to logic problems related to crime detection, it culminates in logic and arithmetic puzzles involving King Arthur and his Dogs of the Round Table.
Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial...
Hidden Connections and Double Meanings
A Mathematical Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Everything in mathematics has many meanings — every diagram and every figure, every sum and every equation can be "seen" in different ways, just as every sentence in English or in algebra can be variously read and interpreted. This book explores mathematical topics by pointing out remarkable...
by Sumita Bose
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book provides students with decision making, critical thinking, skill building and fun-filled hands-on projects. All the mathematics projects included in the book are classroom tested which focus on concept development through creativity.
The sete-by-step easy projects explained in this...
The Universal Computer
The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The breathtakingly rapid pace of change in computing makes it easy to overlook the pioneers who began it all. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing explores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians. It tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the computer age – the logicians.
Gold Medal Physics
The Science of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Nothing is quite as thrilling as watching superior athletes do the seemingly impossible. From Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary" pass to Lance Armstrong's record-breaking climb of Alp d'Huez to David Beckham's astounding ability to bend a soccer kick, we marvel and wonder, "How did they do that?"...
by Jelke Bethlehem
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Polls are conducted every day all around the world for almost everything (especially during elections). But not every poll is a good one. A lot depends on the type of questions asked, how they are asked and whether the sample used is truly representative. And these are not the only aspects of a poll...