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Loyd,
Dudeney and... Galactic Takeover
by Serhiy Grabarchuk
It's amusing to see how things that were interesting to puzzlers many
decades ago look fresh and attractive today. Of course, they were
presented in a somewhat different manner, but their core is still
appealing to their solvers...
From morning to night we are being perpetually brought face to face with puzzles. But there are puzzles and puzzles. Those that are usually devised for recreation and pastime may be roughly divided into two classes: Puzzles that are built up on some interesting or informing little principle; and puzzles that conceal no principle
whatever...
e are living in a time when good, fundamentally sound education is essential to our future. The onset of the information age presents entirely new challenges to us as a society in the 21st century. Both children and adults are being asked to adapt to new technologies, to learn new skills, and to think in new and smart ways...
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself-and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that...
Experimental psychologists like to tell a
story about a professor who investigated the ability of chimpanzees to solve problems. A banana was suspended from the center of the ceiling, at a height that the chimp could not reach by
jumping...
eynman tended to associate more with the mathematicians than the physicists at the Graduate College.
Students from the two groups joined each afternoon for tea in a common lounge -
more English tradition transplanted - and Feynman would listen to an
increasingly alien jargon...
In selecting materials for this collection I have done my best to find puzzles that are unusual and entertaining,
that call for only the most elementary knowledge of mathematics, but at the same time provide stimulating glimpses into higher levels of mathematical thinking...
Nearly everyone must have had at least a few amusements among his or her
childhood treasures based on the simple
principle of taking things apart and fitting them back together again. Indeed, many infants show a natural inclination to do this almost from birth...
