Games for Your Mind - The History and Future of Logic Puzzles

Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores the history and future of logic puzzles while enabling you to test your skill against a variety of puzzles yourself.

About the author

Jason Rosenhouse is professor of mathematics at James Madison University. He is the author of The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser and Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line. He is the coauthor (with Laura Taalman) of Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle and the coeditor (with Jennifer Beineke) of The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects (Vols. 1–3) (Princeton).

Summary

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy.

Additional text

"Jason Rosenhouse’s Games for Your Mind is an engaging popular mathematics book written to enlighten the reader on the mathematics and logic behind popular puzzles. . . .overall, the reviewer would recommend this book to all people who want a puzzling challenge. Although the puzzles towards the end of the book feel impossible, the thrill of that ‘ah!’ moment when you work through Rosenhouse’s solution is surely a high for any mathematician out there."---Holly A. J. Middleton-Spencer, London Mathematical Society

Product details

• Authors: Jason Rosenhouse, Rosenhouse Jason
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780691174075
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17407-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; COMPUTERS / Computer Science, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, MATHEMATICS / Logic, MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games, computer science, Philosophy of Mathematics, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Logic & Brain Teasers, History of mathematics, Mathematical logic, Philosophy: logic, Sudoku & Number Puzzles, Sudoku and number puzzles