Test Your Logic: Fifty Puzzles in Deductive Reasoning (Dover Recreational Math) - Tapa blanda

Summers, George J.

 
9780486228778: Test Your Logic: Fifty Puzzles in Deductive Reasoning (Dover Recreational Math)
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ISBN 10: 0486228770 ISBN 13: 9780486228778
Editorial: Dover Publications Inc., 2003

Sinopsis

When Adrian, Buford, and Carter eat out, each orders either ham or pork. If Adrian orders ham, Buford orders pork. Either Adrian or Carter orders ham, but not both. Buford and Carter do not both order pork. Who could have ordered ham yesterday, pork today?
It is a rare event when a book of truly new logical puzzles is primed, but George Summers has now twice produced such an event. In New Puzzles in Logical Deduction he created 50 truly new puzzles. With new turns of thought, new subtleties of inference, he has here created 50 more! Even if you have not seen the basic situations before, you have never before had a chance to test your logic against the precision of scope of these.
The puzzles range in difficulty from the relatively simple examples at the beginning of the book to others, tricky, complex, and subtle enough to test the expert. Most are set in story form. Some are concerned with establishing identities from minimal clues. Others are based on cryptarithmetic, or the identification of numbers. While an occasional problem involves algebra, no special knowledge is required for most, no mathematics beyond high school, no training in traditional or symbolic logic. All that one need to them is the ability to think clearly and consecutively, and to pursue the puzzles in the most downright logical way.
Among the strongest features of Summers' book is the solutions section, which takes the reader through every step and every implication of the solutions. After seeing one solution, you cannot help but test your logic against the next puzzle in the book. There are even hints printed at the bottom of the page to stall somewhat the irresistible urge to turn to the answers. To our knowledge this material is unique.

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Reseña del editor

Fifty logic puzzles range in difficulty from the relatively simple to the more complex and subtle. Mostly set in story form, some problems involve establishing identities from minimal clues, while others are based on cryptarithmetic and algebra. Complete solutions are provided and hints are included for each puzzle.

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Editorial
Dover Publications Inc.
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0486228770
ISBN 13 
9780486228778
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
100
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