Name: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books)
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Author: Alex Bellos
ISBN: 9781615197187

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Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alex Bellos

Publisher

Experiment

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781615197187

Synopsis "Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books) "

Put your wits--and survival instincts--to the test! Publisher's Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You've Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world's greatest stumpers--many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you'll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore--in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?

Alex Bellos

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Alex Bellos has worked as a reporter for The Guardian, first at the London office and later as a correspondent in Rio de Janeiro. In 2003, he began freelancing for this newspaper, and also for other prestigious dailies such as The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, and News of the World. Bellos has also published articles in non-English speaking newspapers, such as El País, Libération, or Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others.

Based in London, he also works as a broadcaster and his short films have been aired by prestigious networks such as the BBC and Al Jazeera International. His previous books were a biography of Pelé and an essay on football in Brazil.

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