Showing posts with label Joseph S. Madachy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph S. Madachy. Show all posts

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles by Joseph S. Madachy

Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles by Joseph S. MadachyThis book was pretty disappointing. From the description, I thought it would be a book of puzzles for the reader to solve. Unfortunately, 3/4 of the book was descriptions on how famous puzzles have been solved. For someone who is more interested in the explantions, this would be a good book. If, like me, you are more interested in being the solver, I would skip it. Also good to know, this book was published first in 1966 so some of the puzzles are a little dated.

Two stars
This book comes out May 16