The Moscow Puzzles 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math)

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Название: The Moscow Puzzles 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math)

Издатель: Dover Publications

Автор: Boris A. Kordemsky

Серия: Dover Recreational Math

Год: April 10, 1992

Страниц: 320 (по описанию книги)

Формат: ePUB

Язык: English

Размер: 25 mb

ISBN: 978-0486270784

Качество: хорошее

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The Moscow Puzzles 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math)

Одна из самых популярных книг с головоломками которая была издана в Советском Союзе.

Это восьмое издание, mirknig.com а первое было опубликовано в 1956 году и переведено с русского языка на украинский, эстонский, латышский, литовский и др.

Почти миллион копий русской версии книги было продано.

Одной из причин mirknig.com успеха книги является на удивление разнообразный ассортимент головоломок, начиная от простого задания переходя к сложным (однако, не требующих знания высшей математики).

Многие из загадок будут новинками для западных читателей.

" The Moscow Puzzles" This is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the mirknig.com original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the Russian version alone have been sold.

Part of the reason for the book's success is its marvelously varied assortment of brainteasers ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems (none, however, requiring advanced mathematics).

Many of the puzzles will be new to Western readers, while some familiar problems have been clothed in new forms.

Often the puzzles are presented in the form of charming stories that provide non-Russian readers with valuable insights into contemporary mirknig.com Russian life and customs.

In addition, Martin Gardner, former editor of the Mathematical Games Department, Scientific American, has clarified and simplified the book to make it as easy as possible for an English-reading public to understand and enjoy. mirknig.com

He has been careful, moreover, to retain nearly all the freshness, warmth, and humor of the original.

Lavishly illustrated with over 400 clear diagrams and amusing sketches, this inexpensive edition of the first English translation will offer weeks or even months of stimulating entertainment.

It belongs in the library of every puzzlist or lover of recreational mathematics .

Отзывы о книге:

I was thrilled and surprised to see that this book is still in print. I loved puzzles as a child and spent many hours for fun working the problems in this book (which may have paved the way for my PhD in Computer Science). I fished out my old copy recently to show my 11 year old daughter how I spent my spare hours as a child - *not* playing computer games of dubious educational value. I am sure that working the problems in this book helped increase my problem solving skills - in a different and more general way than I was learning in school.

Of all the puzzle books and puzzles I ever owned, this is the only one I saved. The book has a wide variety of types of puzzles (not all involve numbers). While some are easy, most were challenging. The descriptions were charming, with Russian names of children and towns and quaint puzzle descriptions involving wells, or steam engines or household objects. All in all, a delightful, very educational puzzle collection.

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"The Moscow Puzzles" is unique among problem-solving and brainteaser books because of the wide range of types of problems that it addresses. As a lecturer at Cal Tech's Executive Training Center, I teach "Creating Breakthrough Products" to technical executives. This book has been very helpful for those participating, because the problems it contains represent various types of psychological barriers that prevent problem-solvers and designers from achieving high-level solutions. I refer to examples from this book during the Cal Tech training session; we employ the revolutionary Russian problem-solving tool whose acronym is "TRIZ."

Other fine attributes of this book are its sense of humor and its practicality. The author has chosen everyday events and situations for his problem "plots," and in doing so, maintains the interest level of the average reader.

Readers of this book will learn to overcome personal barriers to creativity (the chief personal barrier is called "psychological inertia"), and will increase their creativity quotients by an order of magnitude, or more.

I strongly recommend this book for use in all classes from grades 4 through college senior. For the rest of us who simply like ("love") to work on challenging problems, this is the book for you. Good luck