The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight

Roeder, Oliver

ISBN 10: 039360991X / ISBN 13: 9780393609912

Published by WW Norton & Co, 2018

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2018. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039360991X
• ISBN 13: 9780393609912
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The most mind-bending puzzles on the internet appear weekly in Oliver Roeder’s “The Riddler” column. Presented by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, an online mecca for statistics nerds, the column attracts a rabid community of puzzlers (including the coach of the U.S. Math Olympiad team and a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory) who rush to submit solutions and extensions.

Now, FiveThirtyEight presents the first-ever Riddler collection, featuring the column’s most popular problems, which draw on geometry, logic, statistics and game theory, along with six never-before-published puzzles. The simplest require a mere flash of insight, whilst the toughest involve deep applications of analysis and probability theory. Can you rig an election? What’s the best way to drop a smartphone? Can you solve the puzzle of the overflowing martini glass? Designed to appeal to a range of skill levels, The Riddler will be the perfect gift for any maths or puzzle enthusiast.

About the Author

Oliver Roeder has been a senior writer at FiveThirtyEight and editor of The Riddler. He studied artificial intelligence as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and holds a PhD in economics focused on game theory. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.