Knots and Numbers: 50 Brain Teazers
By Roy Whitlow
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Puzzles, quizzes, mind games, brain benders, teasers, riddles and the like have been around for thousands of years. Fascinating examples of mind benders can be found in Chinese, Greek, Roman and other histories, many that still test our skills today. There are many books of recreational mathematics and logic puzzles, ranging from the suitably learned to downright examples of fun. The contents of this modest volume I have collected over the past 40 years, some of which I have contributed to a few magazines. Some are attributed, some adapted and some quite original. I don’t claim that any are truly mind challenging, but some are more tricky than others. Mathematicians might have a slight advantage with a few, but really all can be solved with a modest understanding of numbers, some applied thinking and some common sense. They are meant as entertainment; if you learn anything along the way, then that is a bonus.
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Knots and Numbers - Roy Whitlow
Knots and Numbers – 50 Brain Teazers
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Roy Whitlow
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Quentin’s walk
2. On the barber’s pole
3. Asking the ladies' ages??? Really!
4. How good is your algebra?
5. Currency problems in Zanizania
6. Professor Cuberoot & Dr Surd's boys
7. Odd digits are not that odd
8. Three girls, a boy and a dog
9. Matching sums and products
10. Five-a-side goals
11. Profit and loss
12. Elapsed times with 'hourglasses'
13. Election results: a mathematical playground
14. Signing up for homework
15. The age of the Ab's bride
16. Recurring problems - again and again
17. Recurring problems - again recurring
18. A suitor for the Princess Polynomia
19. Young Fourier’s homework mistake
20. Ann and Polly’s ages
21. A number square for homework
22. A circular railway
23. Amy Beth Surd’s age
24. Counting in Teazonia
25. The professors’ card game
26. A visit to mother-in-law
27. It’s all about Diophantus
28. Father Jones' apples
29. New Short-Mat Bowls ladies
30. How many squares?
31 Counting the chimes
32. A mobile number of primes
33. Test results
34. Blots in a copybook
35. Strong family weightlifting
36. A race track of primes
37. The stamp collectors
38. Incredible prizes in the raffle
39. A model railway problem
40. A ton sum of digits
41. More of the nine digits
42. Yet more tons
43. The neighbour's ages
44. Perpetual calendar cubes
45. Polly’s cube root blunder
46. Pocket money economics
47. BIDMAS. What is this?
48. What are the odds?
49. Dividing Old Paddy's horses
50. How many links in the chains?
Introduction
Puzzles, quizzes, mind games, brain benders, teasers, riddles and the like have been around for thousands of years. Magnus Ausonius (310-395 A.D.). recorded a puzzle reputed to have been devised by the great Archimedes – it has been named The Loculus of Archimedes or ‘Archimedes Box’. It consists of 14 flat polygonal (3, 4, and 5 sided) shapes that will fit in various ways into a square box. If you are interested for more information look it up on the internet: for example, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Stomachion.html, or use a search engine. Some notable authors have contributed to a vast collection: Lewis Carroll and his ‘knots’ and J.R.R. Tolkien in the Hobbit (the riddle contest between Bilbo and