![]() ![]() It is, in fact, not easy to say sometimes System of shortening our labours by avoiding or eliminating what our That we have no way of attacking except by haphazard attempts can beīrought under a method of what has been called "glorified trial"-a Of necessity consciously, on mathematical lines. "reason out" the answer to the simplest puzzle is working, though not Must start from the time when man first succeeded in counting his tenįingers and in dividing an apple into two approximately equal parts.Įvery puzzle that is worthy of consideration can be referred to The subject entails nothing short of the actual story of theīeginnings and development of exact thinking in man. Little more to be said than I have written elsewhere. On the question of Mathematical Puzzles in general there is, perhaps, ![]() Through the press, and it is possible that the reader may be glad to It is true that some of these have become widely known Something new to be said about them, the problems are in the main Interested the world for generations, where I felt that there was Though I have included a few old puzzles that have Solutions given at greater length than is possible in magazines and Unknown correspondents, at home and abroad, who have expressed aĭesire to have the problems in a collected form, with some of the I must acknowledge the encouragement that I have received from many In issuing this volume of my Mathematical Puzzles, of which some haveĪppeared in periodicals and others are given here for the first time, ![]()
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