Puzzles and quizzes

Everything you need to know about this popular hobby and its history-including a guide to creating your own puzzles!

The mathematics behind some of the world's most amazing card tricksMagical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks-and the profound mathematical ideas behind them-that will astound even the most accomplished magician.

A complete look at every President's who, what, when, where, why, and, how.

Parallel Sorting Algorithms explains how to use parallel algorithms to sort a sequence of items on a variety of parallel computers.

100 Fragen und 100 Geschichten zur Fußball-EM – das Quiz für Fußball-Fans mit kuriosen Ereignissen und Faktenwissen  Die Europameisterschaft 2020 ist etwas ganz Besonderes.

This unique book - based on the author's experience in teaching his grandchildren mathematics the fun way - provides the knowledge and skills to teach math to young children, through learning games with playing cards.

COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED 2ND EDITIONDr.

An "e;entertaining [and] eminently readable"e; exploration of our home planet from the New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Know Much About History(Publishers Weekly).

It's time to get creative with your finances and turn your money into real art!

Since the start of the twentieth century, Philadelphias professional teams in four major sports have won a combined total of seventeen championships.

Put your Real Housewives expertise to the test with over 500 hundred questions, and bonus trivia, all accompanied by hilarious illustrations capturing your favorite housewife moments!

Create miniature versions of your favorite creatures!

THE TANGRAM is one of the oldest types of dissection puzzles in the world that originated from China.

Programming Language Structures deals with the structures of programming languages and introduces the reader to five important programming languages: Algol, Fortran, Lisp, Snobol, and Pascal.

Give your brain a test.

Continuing the amusing, interesting, factual, and sometimes ridiculous bits of information in A Treasury of Texas Trivia, this second volume brings you all-new entertaining tidbits-some of them useful historical facts and some just for fun.

Train your brain!

Everything you need to fold a school of 60 origami fish!

The world, its people, its countries, its history, the maps, and more!

What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective?

Kids ask the darndest things .

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreationLogic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since.

Serious trivia challenge-840 questions to rack your brainWhether playing in a pub, along with a TV show, or at a party, people can't get enough of trivia.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 Washington Post Bestseller There’s Santa Claus, Shakespeare, Mickey Mouse, the Bible, and then there’s Star Wars.

Mixed martial arts hasn't been dubbed the world's fastest growing sport for nothing.

If coffee is the foundation of your food pyramid, then this colorful compendium of fun facts and infographics is for you .

Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will be familiar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road to completion.

Theory of Automata deals with mathematical aspects of the theory of automata theory, with emphasis on the finite deterministic automaton as the basic model.

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A side-splitting selection of one-liners, comic definitions, yarns and witty quotes from the world of music.

A fun look at calculus in our everyday livesCalculus.

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems.

Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world?

For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations.

Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers.

If we actually received messages from the stars, what would we do with them?

Laugh and learn with this humorous compendium that sets the historical record straight-and "e;manages to educate and entertain simultaneously"e; (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

You dont just move here and immediately become a Texan; it takes training.

Genmix: A General Computer Program for Two-dimensional Parabolic Phenomena explains a computer program called GENMIX.

The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and scienceMartin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland.

Evaluation of Diagnostic Systems: Methods from Signal Detection Theory addresses the many issues that arise in evaluating the performance of a diagnostic system, across the wide range of settings in which such systems are used.

The mathematics behind some of the world's most amazing card tricksMagical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks-and the profound mathematical ideas behind them-that will astound even the most accomplished magician.

Algorithmically Specialized Parallel Computers focuses on the concept and characteristics of an algorithmically specialized computer.

The math book for anyone who thinks they hate math, full of easy, entertaining and practical tricks for mentally solving problems in seconds.

Learn to fold incredible geometric origami models from "e;The Queen of Modular Origami!

Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War.

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware of one's own emotions and those of other people.

A collection of obscure facts, impressive achievements, despicable crimes, bizarre records, unforgettable films and more from the authors of listverse.