The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from Fivethirtyeight

by Roeder, Oliver
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ISBN: 9780393609912
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Overview

The most mind-bending puzzles on the internet appear weekly in Oliver Roeder's "The Riddler" column. Presented by Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, an online mecca for statistics nerds, the column attracts a rabid community of puzzlers (including the coach of the U.S. Math Olympiad team and a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) who rush to submit solutions and extensions.

Now, FiveThirtyEight presents the first-ever Riddler collection, featuring the column's most popular problems, which draw on geometry, logic, statistics, and game theory, along with six never-before-published puzzles. The simplest require a mere flash of insight, while the toughest involve deep applications of analysis and probability theory. Can you rig an election? What's the best way to drop a smartphone? Can you solve the puzzle of the overflowing martini glass? Designed to appeal to a range of skill levels, The Riddler will be the perfect gift for any math or puzzle enthusiast.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Roeder, Oliver
  • ISBN: 9780393609912
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Publication Year: 2018

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