Boris A. Kordemsky ; edited and with an introduction by Martin Gardner ; translated by Albert Parry.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
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C. Scribner's Sons,
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c1972.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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309 p. :
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ill. ;
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23 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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"Some of the puzzles appeared first in Horizon." --T.p. verso.
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Includes answers.
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Includes index.
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Translation of Matematicheskai͡a smekalka.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Amusing problems -- Difficult problems -- Geometry with matches -- Measure seven times before you cut -- Skill will find its application everywhere -- Dominoes and dice -- Properties of nine -- With algebra and without it -- Mathematics with almost no calculations -- Mathematical games and tricks -- Divisibility -- Cross sums and magic squares -- Numbers curious and serious -- Numbers ancient but eternally young.