Problems for Metagrobologists: A Collection of Puzzles with Real Mathematical, Logical or Scientific Content (Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond): 3 - Hardcover

David Singmaster

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814663638 ISBN 13: 9789814663632

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

Definition of metagrobolize: puzzle, mystify; puzzle out. Hence, metagrobology is the study of puzzles and metagrobologist an expert in such study. David Singmaster is possibly the world's best known metagrobologist. He gained prominence in the 1980s with a booklet on how to solve the Rubik's Cube.

This book is a collection of over 200 problems that David Singmaster has composed since 1987. Some of the math problems have appeared in his various puzzle columns for BBC Radio and TV, Canadian Broadcasting, Focus (the UK popular science magazine), Games and Puzzles, the Los Angeles Times, Micromath, the Puzzle a Day memo pad and the Weekend Telegraph. While some of these are already classics, many of the puzzles have not been published elsewhere previously.

Puzzle enthusiasts of all ages will find here arithmetic problems, properties of digits; monetary problems; alpha-metics; Diophantine problems; magic figures; sequence problems; logical problems; geometric problems; physics problems; combinatorial problems; geographic problems; calendar problems; clock problems; dissection problems and verbal problems.

Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a metagobologist? Check out Alex Bellos's Monday Puzzle on The Guardian as he features two sequence puzzles from the book.

About this title

About the Author

David Singmaster is a retired professor of mathematics at London South Bank University, England UK. A self described metagrobologist, he is most famous for his solutions to the Rubik's cube and his huge personal collection of mechanical puzzles and books brainteasers.

From the Back Cover

This is a collection of over 200 problems that David Singmaster composed since 1988. Many of them appeared in his puzzle columns or series.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814663638
• ISBN 13: 9789814663632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248