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Riddles of the Sphinx /
This material was drawn from Gardner's column in Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. His riddles presented here incorporate the responses of his initial readers, along with additions suggested by the editors of this series. In this book, Gardner draws us from questions to answers, alw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Anneli Lax new mathematical library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Riddles of the Sphinx: and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Editors� Preface
- Foreword
- RIDDLES
- 1 Riddles of the Sphinx
- 2 Precognition and the Mystic Seven
- 3 On to Charmian
- 4 Technology on Vzigs
- 5 The Valley of Lost Things
- 6 Around the Solar System
- 7 The Stripe on Barberpolia
- 8 The Road to Mandalay
- 9 The Black Hole of Cal Cutter
- 10 Science Fantasy Quiz
- 11 The Barbers of Barberpolia
- 12 It�s All Done with Mirrors
- 13 Satan and the Apple
- 14 How�s-that-again Flanagan15 Relativistically Speaking
- 16 Bar Bets on the Bagel
- 17 Catch the BEM
- 18 Animal TTT
- 19 Playing Safe on the Bagel
- 20 Sex Among the Polyomans
- 21 Inner Planets Quiz
- 22 Puzzles in Flatland
- 23 Dirac�s Scissors
- 24 Bull�s-eyes and Pratfalls
- 25 Flarp Flips Another Fiver
- 26 Blues in the Night
- 27 Again. How�s That Again?
- 28 Alice in Beeland
- 29 Hustle Off to Buffalo
- 30 Ray Palmer�s Arcade
- 31 Puzzle Flags on Mars
- 32 The Vanishing Plank
- 33 987654321
- 34 Time-reversed Worlds35 The Wisdom of Solomon
- 36 Thang. the Planet Eater
- FIRST ANSWERS
- SECOND ANSWERS
- THIRD ANSWERS
- FOURTH ANSWERS
- Back Cover