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    Knots and Numbers: 50 Brain Teazers
    Knots and Numbers: 50 Brain Teazers
    Knots and Numbers: 50 Brain Teazers
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    Knots and Numbers: 50 Brain Teazers

    By Roy Whitlow

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    Puzzles, quizzes, mind games, brain benders, teasers, riddles and the like have been around for thousands of years. Fascinating examples of mind benders can be found in Chinese, Greek, Roman and other histories, many that still test our skills today. There are many books of recreational mathematics and logic puzzles, ranging from the suitably learned to downright examples of fun. The contents of this modest volume I have collected over the past 40 years, some of which I have contributed to a few magazines. Some are attributed, some adapted and some quite original. I don’t claim that any are truly mind challenging, but some are more tricky than others. Mathematicians might have a slight advantage with a few, but really all can be solved with a modest understanding of numbers, some applied thinking and some common sense. They are meant as entertainment; if you learn anything along the way, then that is a bonus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoy Whitlow
    Release dateJul 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301612345
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      Knots and Numbers - Roy Whitlow

      Knots and Numbers – 50 Brain Teazers

      Compiled by

      Roy Whitlow

      Published by:

      R.Whitlow, Bristol, UK

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright: © 2013 Roy Whitlow, Bristol, UK

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, manual, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      1. Quentin’s walk

      2. On the barber’s pole

      3. Asking the ladies' ages??? Really!

      4. How good is your algebra?

      5. Currency problems in Zanizania

      6. Professor Cuberoot & Dr Surd's boys

      7. Odd digits are not that odd

      8. Three girls, a boy and a dog

      9. Matching sums and products

      10. Five-a-side goals

      11. Profit and loss

      12. Elapsed times with 'hourglasses'

      13. Election results: a mathematical playground

      14. Signing up for homework

      15. The age of the Ab's bride

      16. Recurring problems - again and again

      17. Recurring problems - again recurring

      18. A suitor for the Princess Polynomia

      19. Young Fourier’s homework mistake

      20. Ann and Polly’s ages

      21. A number square for homework

      22. A circular railway

      23. Amy Beth Surd’s age

      24. Counting in Teazonia

      25. The professors’ card game

      26. A visit to mother-in-law

      27. It’s all about Diophantus

      28. Father Jones' apples

      29. New Short-Mat Bowls ladies

      30. How many squares?

      31 Counting the chimes

      32. A mobile number of primes

      33. Test results

      34. Blots in a copybook

      35. Strong family weightlifting

      36. A race track of primes

      37. The stamp collectors

      38. Incredible prizes in the raffle

      39. A model railway problem

      40. A ton sum of digits

      41. More of the nine digits

      42. Yet more tons

      43. The neighbour's ages

      44. Perpetual calendar cubes

      45. Polly’s cube root blunder

      46. Pocket money economics

      47. BIDMAS. What is this?

      48. What are the odds?

      49. Dividing Old Paddy's horses

      50. How many links in the chains?

      Introduction

      Puzzles, quizzes, mind games, brain benders, teasers, riddles and the like have been around for thousands of years. Magnus Ausonius (310-395 A.D.). recorded a puzzle reputed to have been devised by the great Archimedes – it has been named The Loculus of Archimedes or ‘Archimedes Box’. It consists of 14 flat polygonal (3, 4, and 5 sided) shapes that will fit in various ways into a square box. If you are interested for more information look it up on the internet: for example, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Stomachion.html, or use a search engine. Some notable authors have contributed to a vast collection: Lewis Carroll and his ‘knots’ and J.R.R. Tolkien in the Hobbit (the riddle contest between Bilbo and

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