the math behind the world's most popular pencil puzzle /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 214 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. (some col.) ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Playing the game: mathematics as applied puzzle-solving -- Latin squares: what do mathematicians do? -- Greco-Latin squares: the problem of the thirty-six officers -- Counting: it's harder than it looks -- Equivalence classes: the importance of being essentially identical -- Why the natural approach fails -- Searching: the art of finding needles in haystacks -- Graphs: dots, lines, and sudoku -- Polynomials: we finally found a use for algebra -- Extremes: sudoku pushed to its limits -- Epilogue: you can never have too many puzzles