"This book presents a series of engaging games that seem unsolvable--but can be solved when they are translated into mathematical terms. How can players find their ID cards when the cards are distributed randomly among twenty boxes? By applying the theory of permutations. How ca…
"Introducing complex math concepts through the medium of seemingly unsolvable games"--
Hat colors and Hamming codes -- Twenty boxes and permutations -- The dovetail trick and rising sequences -- Animal stickers and cyclic groups -- Opera singers and information theory -- Animal matching and projective geometry -- The Earth and an eigenvalue -- The fallen picture a…
"Introducing complex math concepts through the medium of seemingly unsolvable games"--
"Introducing complex math concepts through the medium of seemingly unsolvable games"--