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The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Math & Logic Puzzles) |  | Author: Boris A. Kordemsky
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 12861
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0486270785
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.74
EAN: 9780486270784
ASIN: 0486270785
Publication Date: April 10, 1992
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Amazon.com Review
This book has been a classic in the former Soviet Union since it was first published in 1956, and it remains just as entertaining today. A master at making math fun for his high school students, Boris Kordemsky loaded this clever collection with a wide variety of math and logic related games and puzzles dealing with magic squares, tricky weights and measures, properties of numbers, mathematical tricks, and more. Number and math game fans are bound to find several new amusements here. Even many of the well-known classics from generations past take on new life with the fresh twists Kordemsky provides.
Product Description
Most popular Russian puzzle book ever published. Marvelously varied puzzles ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Lavishly illustrated with clear diagrams and amusing sketches. Edited for English-readers, while retaining warmth and charm of original. Inexpensive edition of first English translation. Introduction by Martin Gardner. 425 line illustrations. Solutions.
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 In Soviet Russia, the puzzle solves you June 9, 2009
Leizoor (Finland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In Soviet Russia, the puzzles are also converted into practical problems involving steel working, railways and Young Pioneers (well, not all). But as with many older books (and also Soviet books), what they gain in a certain charm or obscurity, they lose in clarity or straightforwardness of presentation. So that you could make many problems at least 10-30% easier to decipher just be rewriting the descriptions.
I haven't read that many puzzle books yet, but this is probably my second favorite so far. My favorite is: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities.
 Funny, challenging, and well written! November 8, 2006
Daniel Waisberg (Israel)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book while working as a gifted children teacher. I liked it so much that I used to keep it in my car and solve riddles whenever I had to wait for someone. It is a great resource for all teachers; children are suddenly made quiet when you present a puzzle to them.
I especially like the stick puzzles, where you can distribute a number of matches to students (by the way, it works with kids, teenagers and adults alike) and give them a puzzle. The advantage of this kind of puzzle is that you can give additional tasks to those fast-solvers; you do not have a story behind it.
The organization of the book is excellent; it is divided by difficulty levels as well as by type of puzzle. For example, you have different levels of geometry problems and of sticks problems.
Great book!
very good November 5, 2006
Chan Youn Kim (Korea)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
despite of difficulty, I love it because there are various good problems
Thanks you
An absolutely must have for puzzle lovers. July 19, 2006
David De Sousa
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Excellent collection of math puzzles not requiring advanced math - A book for anyone and everyone
With and outstanding collection of 359 mathematical recreations and being lavishly illustrated with more than 400 diagrams and sketches, this book will certainly become a treasure in the personal library of anyone that enjoys solving puzzles.
It's a mammoth puzzle collection, compare with most math teasers and puzzles book available. But what is important is not the quantity, but the quality and charm of the problems presented.
The book is divided in fifteen chapters, as shown:
- Amusing problems.
- Difficult problems.
- Geometry with matches.
- Measure seven times before you cut.
- Skill will find its application everywhere.
- Dominoes and dice.
- Properties of nine.
- With algebra and without it.
- Mathematics with almost no calculations.
- Mathematical games and tricks.
- Divisibility.
- Cross sums and magic squares.
- Numbers curious and serious.
- Numbers ancient but eternally young.
- Solutions.
Everyone will find the type of problems the like most. Often the puzzles are presented in the form of charming stories that provides valuable insights into contemporary Russian life and customs.
Wonderful, charming puzzles teach problem solving. January 11, 2006
hdbooth (Knoxville, TN USA)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I was thrilled and surprised to see that this book is still in print. I loved puzzles as a child and spent many hours for fun working the problems in this book (which may have paved the way for my PhD in Computer Science). I fished out my old copy recently to show my 11 year old daughter how I spent my spare hours as a child - *not* playing computer games of dubious educational value. I am sure that working the problems in this book helped increase my problem solving skills - in a different and more general way than I was learning in school.
Of all the puzzle books and puzzles I ever owned, this is the only one I saved. The book has a wide variety of types of puzzles (not all involve numbers). While some are easy, most were challenging. The descriptions were charming, with Russian names of children and towns and quaint puzzle descriptions involving wells, or steam engines or household objects. All in all, a delightful, very educational puzzle collection.
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