Riddles of the Sphinx / Martin Gardner.

This material was drawn from Gardner's column in Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. His riddles presented here incorporate the responses of his initial readers, along with additions suggested by the editors of this series. In this book, Gardner draws us from questions to answers, alw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gardner, Martin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:	Anneli Lax new mathematical library.
Subjects:	Mathematical recreations. Puzzles. Jigsaw puzzles. jigsaw puzzles. Mathematical recreations Puzzles
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Front Cover
Riddles of the Sphinx: and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
Editorsâ€? Preface
Foreword
RIDDLES
1 Riddles of the Sphinx
2 Precognition and the Mystic Seven
3 On to Charmian
4 Technology on Vzigs
5 The Valley of Lost Things
6 Around the Solar System
7 The Stripe on Barberpolia
8 The Road to Mandalay
9 The Black Hole of Cal Cutter
10 Science Fantasy Quiz
11 The Barbers of Barberpolia
12 Itâ€?s All Done with Mirrors
13 Satan and the Apple
14 Howâ€?s-that-again Flanagan15 Relativistically Speaking
16 Bar Bets on the Bagel
17 Catch the BEM
18 Animal TTT
19 Playing Safe on the Bagel
20 Sex Among the Polyomans
21 Inner Planets Quiz
22 Puzzles in Flatland
23 Diracâ€?s Scissors
24 Bullâ€?s-eyes and Pratfalls
25 Flarp Flips Another Fiver
26 Blues in the Night
27 Again. Howâ€?s That Again?
28 Alice in Beeland
29 Hustle Off to Buffalo
30 Ray Palmerâ€?s Arcade
31 Puzzle Flags on Mars
32 The Vanishing Plank
33 987654321
34 Time-reversed Worlds35 The Wisdom of Solomon
36 Thang. the Planet Eater
FIRST ANSWERS
SECOND ANSWERS
THIRD ANSWERS
FOURTH ANSWERS
Back Cover

Riddles of the Sphinx / Martin Gardner.

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