The liar paradox and the towers of Hanoi : the 10 greatest puzzles of all time /
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The riddle of the sphinx
- Problem-solving
- Insight thinking
- Alcuin's river-crossing puzzle
- The Josephus and Kirkman school puzzles
- Combinatorics
- Fibonacci's rabbit puzzle
- Patterns in the Fibonacci sequence
- Sequences and series
- Euler's königsberg bridges puzzle
- Graph theory and topology
- Impossibility
- Guthrie's four-color problem
- Euclidean method
- Proof
- Lucas's tower of hanoi puzzle
- Perfect numbers and mersenne primes
- Infinity
- Loyd's get off the earth puzzle
- Dissection
- Optical illusions, ambiguous figures, and impossible figures
- Epimenides's liar paradox
- Undecidability
- Limits
- The Lo Shu magic square
- "Magical" number patterns
- Algorithms
- The Cretan labyrinth
- Coordinate geometry
- The Pythagoreans
- Answers and explanations.