Bibliograph

The riddler, fantastic puzzles from FiveThirtyEight, edited by Oliver Roeder ; foreword by Nate Silver

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The riddler, fantastic puzzles from FiveThirtyEight, edited by Oliver Roeder ; foreword by Nate Silver

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The riddler

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Oliver Roeder ; foreword by Nate Silver

Sub title

fantastic puzzles from FiveThirtyEight

Summary

"In the tradition of Martin Gardner's beloved brain teasers, Oliver Roeder's delightful puzzles explore the math implicit in everyday occurences. The most mind-bending puzzles on the internet appear weekly in Oliver Roeder's "The Riddler" column. Presented by Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, an online mecca for statistics nerds, the column attracts a rabid community of puzzlers (including the coach of the U.S. Math Olympiad team and a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) who rush to submit solutions and extensions. Now, FiveThirtyEight presents the first-ever Riddler collection, featuring the column's most popular problems, which draw on geometry, logic, statistics, and game theory, along with six never-before-published puzzles. The simplest require a mere flash of insight, while the toughest involve deep applications of analysis and probability theory. Can you rig an election? What's the best way to drop a smartphone? Can you solve the puzzle of the overflowing martini glass? Designed to appeal to a range of skill levels, The Riddler will be the perfect gift for any math or puzzle enthusiast"--, Publisher

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Fantastic puzzles from FiveThirtyEight

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