Einstein's Riddle: Riddles, Paradoxes, and Conundrums to Stretch Your Mind - Rilegato

Stangroom, Jeremy

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ISBN 10: 1596916656 ISBN 13: 9781596916654

Casa editrice: BLOOMSBURY, 2009

Riassunto

A unique compilation of logical teasers and lateral-thinking problems designed to stretch your brainpower and strengthen your mind.

Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience.

Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jeremy Stangroom has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is currently the New Media editor of The Philosopher's Magazine, which he founded with Julian Baggini in 1997. He is the author/editor of numerous books, including The Little Book of Big Ideas: Philosophy and The Little Book of Big Ideas: Religion. He is also series editor, with James Garvey, of Continuum Books' major new series on Contemporary Social Issues. Stangroom is an elected fellow the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: BLOOMSBURY
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1596916656
• ISBN 13: 9781596916654
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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