Words and Worlds

In this book, the reader is invited to enter a strange world in which you can tell the age of the captain by counting the animals on his ship, where runners do not get tired, and where water gets hotter when you add it to other water. It is the world of a curious genre, known as "e;word problems"e; or "e;story problems"e;. It originated in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, and India, and ...