More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd: (Dover Recreational Math)

Sam Loyd (1841-1911) was America's greatest originator of puzzles. For more than 50 years, his ingenious posers, appearing in innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, stumped and delighted an American public running into the millions. (Four or five of his mechanical puzzles became national crazes.) After Loyd's death, his son issued a vast collection of these problems in a book entitled ""Cyclopedia of Puzzles"" - probably the most famous and exciting collection of puzzles ever assembled in one volume.Now Martin Gardner, a well-known author of many science and puzzle books and articles, has selected the choicest mathematical puzzles contained in the long out-of-print ""Cyclopedia,"" editing each one for accuracy and clarity, but in such a way as not to sacrifice the unique style and historical flavor of the originals. This is the second volume of Gardner's selection to appear, and contains 166 of Loyd's most brilliant and original creations, together with the 150 line drawings and diagrams with which they were originally illustrated.A distinctive feature of this new selection is the analytical table of contents, which groups the puzzles according to the type of mathematical skill necessary to solve them. Whatever your taste in mathematical puzzles, you will be able to locate easily puzzles based on arithmetic and algebra; speed and distance problems; game theory; operations research; clock problems; plane geometry; geometrical dissection; route tracing and topological problems; counter and sliding block problems; sold geometry; and physics and calculus problems.

Table of Contents:
Arithmetic and Algebraic Problems Lewis Carroll's Monkey Puzzle The Price of Eggs Conscientious Milkman The Five Newsboys How Old Is Mary? The Match Problem Jack Sprat The Miser's Puzzle Contracting Costs The Missing Link Texas Drovers How Old Is Biddy? The General Store Puzzle How Many Chickens? The Leaning Tower of Pisa Puzzle Peddler Pete How Old Is Pocahontas? A Puzzle in Oil and Vinegar The Hat that Didn't Sell Christians and Turks Coming to Town How Old Is Fido? The Inspector's Problem Merry Go Round Puzzle Mrs. Wiggs' Cabbages The Centennial Problem Dividing the Spoils The Weight of a Brick Puzzling Scales Squaring Accounts--A Temperance Puzzle The Three Beggars Puzzling Prattle The Telegraph Poles An Odd Catch The Disappointed Pensioners Problems of History Lord Rosslyn's System "At the "Zoo" Trading in Puzzleland Squaring the Swastika Trading Lots Puzzle Trading in the Philippines Losing at Cinch How Old Is the Boy? Longfellow's Bees Common Stock Dirty Linen The Reaper's Problem Puzzle of Grandfather's Clock Archery Puzzle The Graces and the Muses Dunce Puzzle O'Shaugnessy's Estate Dividing his Flocks The Missing Number How Large Was the Farm? Turkey vs. Goose What Did the Suit Sell For? How Old Is Jimmy? Red Bananas The Wild Man of Borneo Puzzle Twenty Pieces of Candy Puzzling Partnerships The Shy Storekeeper William Tell in Puzzleland Cups and Saucers The Mathematical Milkman Dividing Apples Marbles for Keeps Mixed Tea How Old Is the Boss? Our Columbus Problem Mother's Jam Puzzle Puppies and Rats Division of Capital Mrs. Hogan's Clothes Line Jones' Cows The Shady Grove Horse Trade Quick Deal Puzzle of an Eccentric Will The Famous Hot Cross Bun Puzzle Bill Sykes Speed and Distance Problems Weary Willie The Ferry Boat Problem Jack and Jill Tom the Piper's Son The Leaning Tower of Pisa Puzzle Against the Wind Inverness to Glasgow How Far to Piketown? The Telegraph Poles Cross-Country Running Beating the Record Tandem Bicycle The Owl Express Diminishing Power Skating Puzzle Polar Bride Professor Blumgarten and the Peace Congress Aesop's Eagle The Hare and the Tortoise The Courier Problem The Steeplechase Puzzle Casey's Cow Clock Problems The Assassin's Bullet A Question of Time The Two Watches Puzzle of Grandfather's Clock Game Theory Problems Rip Van Winkle Puzzle A Daisy Puzzle Game Catching a Christmas Turkey The Wild Man of Borneo Puzzle Operations Research Problems Milkman's Puzzle The Switch Problem The Missing Link Tandem Bicycle The Mathematical Milkman The Fire Escape Puzzle Plane Geometry Problems The Royal Road to Learning The Pig Sty Problem The Pony Cart Problem Bo-Peep's Pen The Only Square Game on the Beach Trading Lots Puzzle The Reaper's Problem Cross-Country Running Disputed Claims Lincoln's Rail Puzzle King Solomon's Seal The Electrical Problem Little Bo-Peep in Puzzleland Geometrical Dissection Problems The Royal Road to Learning Cross and Crescent Puzzleland Gingerbread Greek Cross Problems The Goose Puzzle The Crusaders An Old Saw with New Teeth The Monad Puzzle Sawing the Checkerboard Trading in Puzzleland Squaring the Swastika The Remnant Puzzle Red Cross Volunteers Two From One The King's of Siam's Tricks Remnant Bargains Chick to Egg A Square Deal Jack and the Box Puzzle The Mystery of the Boarding House Pie Ancient Order of the Iron Cross A Swiss Puzzle The Royal Road to Mathematics "Route, Tracing, and Topological Problems" The Hammock Puzzle The Pig in the Garden The Patrolman's Puzzle The Problem of London Tower "Red Rum and Murder" The Hidden Couplet The King of Siam's Tricks The Monkey's Puzzle Santa's Christmas Turkey Christopher's Egg Tricks Switchboard Problem Dick Whittington's Cat Counter and Sliding Block Problems The Scholar's Puzzle The Moving Day Puzzle Picket Posts A Nautical Problem "Peaches, Pears, Persimmons, and Plums" A Study in Eggs The Diamond Thief Who Will Get the Nomination? Christopher's Egg Tricks The Jolly Friar's Puzzle Infantry Drill The Henry George Puzzle Game Solid Geometry Problems The Moon Problem The Tinker's Puzzle The Electrical Problem Physics and Calculus Problems Lewis Carroll's Monkey Puzzle Tom the Piper's Son The Leaning Tower of Pisa Puzzle Professor Blumgarten and the Peace Congress The Steeplechase Puzzle

About the Author :
Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination. Martin Gardner: A Remembrance The worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005. To those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. Den Hartog in engineering, Martin's advice and editorial suggestions in the formative 1950s helped to define the Dover publishing program and give it the point of view which - despite many changes, new directions, and the consequences of evolution - continues to be operative today. In the Author's Own Words: "Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs." "A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" - Martin Gardner