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For two decades, an international readership of workers in applied mathematics submitted their favorite puzzles to a mid-twentieth-century column, The Graham Dial. This original collection features 100 of the publication's very best problems, with themes ranging from logic and engineering situations to number theory and geometry. Each problem was specifically…

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1 author picked Ingenious Mathematical Problems and Methods as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is one of the first books in the entire puzzles literature that gave multiple detailed solutions to several beautiful mathematical puzzles.

Some of today's most famous puzzles were either popularized or introduced in this book. For example, truck in the desert, start of the snow, the rookie electrician, hole in a sphere, captivating problem in navigation, the hunter and his dog, the counterfeit coin, and common birthdays.

This book with its multiple-solutions feature taught me that we should never stop searching for more solutions as there can always be a better solution. Furthermore, when 1- or 2-paragraph solutions were…

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