Jason Rosenhouse, Laura Taalman

Taking Sudoku Seriously

The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although solving Sudoku puzzles does not directly involve arithmetic, Sudoku is all about mathematics. This book will give readers a deeper understanding of the inner workings of Sudoku and how it connects to the larger world of mathematics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 167mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780199756568
• ISBN-10: 0199756562
• Artikelnr.: 33372935

Autorenporträt

Jason Rosenhouse is Associate Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University and author of The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser. Laura Taalman is Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University and co-founder of Brainfreeze Puzzles. She is the author of Integrated Calculus and co-author of three books of original Sudoku puzzles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Playing the Game
Mathematics as Applied Puzzle-Solving
2. Latin Squares
What Do Mathematicians Do?
3. Greco-Latin Squares
The Problem of the Thirty-Six Officers
4. Counting
It's Harder Than it Looks
5. Equivalence Classes
The Importance of Being Essentially Identical
6. Searching
The Art of Finding Needles in Haystacks
7. Graphs
Dots, Lines and Sudoku
8. Polynomials
We Finally Found a Use For Algebra
9. Extremes
Sudoku Pushed to its Limits
10. Epilogue
You Can Never Have Too Many Puzzles
Solutions to Puzzles