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Zusatztext ‘Johnny Ball has a unique talent for making mathematics and logic both entertaining and amusing. Here is a collection of 150 puzzles that will keep young and old scratching their heads as they wrestle with seemingly impossible riddles, only to cry 'of course!' when they turn to the answer. For hours of innocent and maddening fun, I can thoroughly recommend it.’ Informationen zum Autor Johnny Ball became TV\u2019s best-loved mathematician in the 1970s and 80s, presenting Think of a Number for the BBC and Johnny Ball Reveals All on ITV. Klappentext From how to cheat in a coin toss to why it is that some parts of a high speed train travelling at 125 mph are actually going backwards, Ball of Confusion is designed to twist your brain into enjoyable knots of empuzzlement-from puzzles solved in a twinkling of an eye to some that will knit your brow for hours. Zusammenfassung From how to cheat in a coin toss to why it is that some parts of a high speed train travelling at 125 mph are actually going backwards, Ball of Confusion is designed to twist your brain into enjoyable knots of empuzzlement--from puzzles solved in a twinkling of an eye to some that will knit your brow for hours.
