Can You Solve My Problems?: Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles Folk Art and Tonkotsu

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Can You Solve My Problems?: Ingenious, Perplexing, and Totally Satisfying Math and Logic Puzzles Folk Art and TonkotsuBy Alex Bellos Puzzle lovers, rejoice! Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the worlds best brainteasers from the last two millennia. Armed with logic alone, youll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Thenwith just a dash of high school mathyoull tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It can be done!)