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M. H Greenblatt, "Mathematical entertainments;: A collection of illuminating puzzles, new and old"

Crowell | 1965 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0006BMUZQ | 160 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB



from the Introduction:



My reasons for writing this book may very well con-

tain a clue for its understanding and enjoyment.

First, there are a great many beautiful and elegant

facts and proofs in mathematics, which are published in

widely varying places, if at all. I would like to shout

about these problems froln the housetops, but have chosen

the more dignified, and probably more efficacious, method

of writing a book about them.



Second, many people consider mathematics to be a

very boring, complicated subject. I hope to show that

some facets of mathematics can be quite simple and in-

teresting, although they are not obviously so at first

glance.



Third, some of the most beautiful solutions of prob-

lems, of which I, alas, am not the originator, do not

appear anywhere to the best of my knowledge.