536 Puzzles
September 7th, 2009
* Authors: Henry Ernest Dudeney
* Release: 1983-09
* Publisher: Scribner
* Format: Paperback
* ISBN: 0684717557 (0-684-71755-7)
* ISBN 13: 9780684717555
* List Price: $12.95
The author, Henry Ernest Dudeney, was England’s greatest maker of puzzles, especially those of more than trivial mathematical interest. He began his career in the late 1800s by contributing short problems to newspapers and magazines, and soon had his own puzzle page, “Perplexities,” in The Strand Magazine. This book is a compilation of some of Dudeney’s most challenging conundrums (culled from two printed collections, MODERN PUZZLES and PUZZLES AND CURIOUS PROBLEMS and runs the gamut from arithmetical, algebraic, and geometrical problems to game and domino puzzles, combinatorial and topological problems, and match puzzles. The answer section includes editorial footnotes, which in some instances point out how a solution has been improved or a problem extended by later experts. It is a tribute to Dudeney’s genius that he was able to invent problems of such depth that it took decades for others to find ways to improve on his answers. Black-and-white illustrations.
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