The Riddler : Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight EPUB
Edited by Oliver Roeder
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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.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:09/10/2018
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- ISBN:9780393609929
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:09/10/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393609929