the uk mathematics trust the ultimate mathematical challenge test your wits against our finest mathematicians
The UK Mathematics Trust The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge. Test Your Wits Against Our Finest Mathematicians
Have you ever wanted to be a puzzle pro or logical luminary? Well, look no further! The perfect way to liven up your day, The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge has over 365 puzzles to test your wits and excite your mind. From starter puzzles to perplexing Olympiad problems designed to stretch even the strongest mathematicians, this book is the ideal forum to get your brain into gear and feed it with the challenges it craves. Specially curated from the UK Mathematics Trust’s catalogue of puzzles, most of these problems can be tackled using no more than a little numerical knowledge, logical thinking and native wit. Including interludes of crossnumber conundrums and shuttle challenges, space for your working out and a handy glossary for those obscure mathematical terms, this book has everything you need to solve captivating problems all year round. Do you have what it takes to conquer The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge?
2622 Р.
Tribe Steve The University Challenge Quiz Book
For almost 50 years, University Challenge has served as a bastion of general knowledge, regularly testing our finest young minds with a dizzying array of subjects. Now - if you think you're up to the challenge - you can pit your own wits against the trickiest quiz around. With over 3,500 challenging quiz questions, The University Challenge Quiz Book will probe the murkiest corners of your intellect. Leaving no stone unturned, in-depth questions cover every aspect of history, science, language, economics, culture and more, and will put even the hardiest quiz veteran through their paces. With games to play either on your own or in teams (no conferring), here is a collection to challenge, surprise and stimulate - from your first starter for ten to the final gong. Come on, come on!
4131 Р.
Moore Gareth The Times World Atlas Puzzle Book. Put Your Knowledge of the World to the Ultimate Test
Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. The ultimate geographical challenge from the world's leading atlas makers. World mapping quizzes and puzzles to test how well you know your countries, flags and capital cities. An ingenious mix of word games, trivia questions, brain teasers, anagrams and mathematical conundrums that will keep your mind working for hours. These fiendish mapping quizzes and puzzles are devised by Gareth Moore, author of best-selling Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book. Test your geographical knowledge of countries, cities, rivers, mountains and much more Challenge your knowledge of world themes from climate to health Fiendish mapping quizzes and puzzles Includes a unique world crossword with more than 80 clues!
3025 Р.
Moscow Mathematical Journal № 3/2023
The Moscow Mathematical Journal (MMJ) is an international quarterly published (paper and electronic) by the Independent University of Moscow, together with the MathematicalDepartment of the Higher School of Econonics and Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education, and distributed worldwide by the American Mathematical Society. MMJ presents highest quality research and research-expository papers in mathematics from all over the world. Its purpose is to bring together different branches of our science and to achieve the broadest possible outlook on mathematics, characteristic of the Moscow mathematical school in general and of the Independent University of Moscow in particular.
850 Р.
The Times Ultimate Killer Su Doku. Book 1
Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles For those who like to live dangerously and push beyond their mental comfort zone, steel yourself for The Times' toughest Killer collection yet. Prepare for the extreme mental challenge of 100 Deadly-level Killer puzzles, including, for the first time ever, 20 Extra Deadly, to really test your limits: thjs is the only place you'll find such a torturous collection in a single book. The Times Ultimate Killer Su Doku is not for the fainthearted. The puzzles use the same 9x9 grid as Su Doku, and have an added mathematical challenge. The aim is not only to complete every row, column and cube so that it contains the digits 1-9, it is also necessary to ensure that the outlined cubes add up to the same number as well. But unlike with previous books, there is no chance to ease yourself in with Easy, or even Tough puzzles: this book is the ultimate Killer Su Doku - completely deadly.
1613 Р.
Tegmark Max Our Mathematical Universe. My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, across every possible scale - from the sub-atomic to the intergalactic - showing how mathematics provides the answers to our questions about the world. Where do we come from? What makes the universe the way it is? In essence, why are we here? With dazzling clarity, Max Tegmark ponders these deep mysteries and allows us to grasp the most cutting-edge and mind-boggling theories of physics. What he proposes is an elegant and fascinating idea: that our physical world not only is described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics.
2529 Р.
Sole Tim The Strange & Infinite World of Numbers
Combining mathematical puzzles with mind-blowing number facts, The Strange and Infinite World of Numbers introduces you to some of the incredible patterns that lie at the heart of our universe. These cover such curiosities as the fundamental constant of music, descriptions of unexpected lotto results, the so-called German Tank problem, and Einstein's most famous equation. This book contains 34 ingenious conundrums relating to these patterns, some of which are unashamedly challenging. Tim Sole has been publishing puzzle books since 1988 and three of his titles have won the accolade of being Official American Mensa Puzzle Books. Test your mental agility and learn about some of the strangest patterns in mathematics with this hardback puzzle book.
3155 Р.
Stewart Trenton Lee The Mysterious Benedict Society
When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them). But in the end just four very special children will succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and resourceful children could complete. With their newfound friendship at stake, will they be able to pass the most important test of all?
1239 Р.
Dedopulos Tim Whodunit Puzzles. Mysteries for the Super Sleuth to Solve
Pit your wits against all manner of cunning criminals as you attempt to solve the fiendish mysteries within. As you put your skills of deduction and problem-solving to the test you'll be guided by three inimitable assistants, the insightful Inspector Parnacki, the curious Miss Mary Miller, and the persistent Joshua Cole. Filled with gruesome murders these whodunits are not for the faint of heart. If you're a puzzle fan looking for a thrilling treat, or a mystery lover who fancies themselves a detective extraordinaire this is just the book for you. So, if you consider yourself a perceptive armchair detective, put your thinking cap on and get ready to use all of your logic and wits as you enter the world of the whodunit!
3155 Р.
Snedden Robert Great Breakthroughs In Mathematics
From early humans carving notches in bones to the discovery of quantum mechanics, mathematics has certainly come a long way. Fully illustrated and augmented with helpful timelines and diagrams, Great Breakthroughs in Mathematics explores some of history's greatest mathematical breakthroughs. Covering topics from Ancient Egyptian geometry to chaos theory, readers will learn about Euclid of Alexandria, Brahmagupta, Sir Isaac Newton, Alan Turing and more. Whether solving practical or abstract problems, these mathematicians have each sought to improve our lives, and have bought us to the world we know today. With each concept explained in easy-to-understand language, there's no need to be a calculus genius to marvel at these incredible feats of problem-solving brilliance.
3784 Р.
God Created the Integers. The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
God Created the Integers is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our presentday technologies. The book includes landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing the work of mathematicians such as Euclid, Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance of the result, followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced from the original publication, many in new translations.
6339 Р.
Mills Andrea Flags Around the World. Ultimate Sticker Book
Learn all about flags from around the world, in DK's amazing Flags Around the World Ultimate Sticker Book, with more than 250 reusable stickers. Travel through the continents and discover the colourful and symbolic flags that represent our world. Create your own flag with colourful stickers and take the quiz to test your knowledge. Fact filled and packed with reusable stickers about flags, countries and the world, Flags Around the World Ultimate Sticker Book is one that children will pick up time and time again.
711 Р.
Saunders Eric The Turing Tests Expert Super Sudoku
Published in association with the Turing Trust, this challenging collection of more than 120 puzzles will put your number and logic skills to the test. Follow in the footsteps of famous World War II codebreaker Alan Turing who used impeccable logic to decipher the military codes used by Germany and its allies. These expert puzzles offer a tough but enjoyable challenge, with many variations of the popular number-placing puzzle sudoku.
1447 Р.
Rooney Anne Mathematics. From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity
In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics. - Galileo (1564-1642) People have always sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond. This book traces humankind's greatest achievements, plotting a journey through the mathematical intellects of the last 4,000 years to where we stand today. It features the giants of mathematics, from Euclid and Pythagoras, through Napier and Newton, to Leibniz, Riemann, Russell, and many more. Topics include: • Counting and measuring from the earliest times • The Ancient Egyptians and geometry • The movements of planets • Measuring and mapping the world • Fuzzy logic and set theory • The death of numbers
1915 Р.
Strong Damara, Moore Gareth Science Puzzles for Clever Kids. Over 100 STEM Puzzles to Exercise Your Mind
A new title in the hugely successful Clever Kids series, this book is brimming with games to test children's knowledge of STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Can you use the arrows to code the computer? Or work out which plane flies fastest? Or match the animals to their habitats? From chemistry conundrums and mathematical mazes to technology teasers and engineering enigmas, there are plenty of puzzles to keep your brain in shape away from the lab. Created by bestselling puzzle book author Gareth Moore, author of the chart-topping success Brain Games for Clever Kids.
1565 Р.
The Alan Turing Codebreaker's Puzzle Book
Published in association with The Turing Trust, this incredible collection of puzzles allows you to test your own codebreaking skills - if you can solve every puzzle in the book you might once have been recruited to join the ranks of Alan Turing's codebreakers! It contains a breathtaking range of different types of puzzles, and so presents a wonderfully entertaining challenge for any puzzle lover.
1995 Р.