Can you solve my problems?: ingenious, perplexing, and totally satisfying math and logic puzzles - 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.

Then--with just a dash of high school math--youll 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 ) The ultimate casebook for daring puzzlers, Can You Solve My Problems? also tells the story of the puzzle--from ancient China to Victorian England to modern-day Japan.

Grab your pencil and get puzzling.