Einstein's Riddle
by Jeremy Stangroom
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Riddles, paradozes and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience. Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, show more lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout. show lessTags
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Not as fun or insightful as I hoped. Discussion of the puzzles are much more of the "a greek philosopher first discussed this imagined logical conundrum" blah blah description than I wanted -- cross MadLibs with a sudoku puzzle book with a dry "history of the ancient greeks" text and a short magazine article about the "Monty Hall" problem and you'll get this book.
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Jeremy Stangroom has a PhD from the London School of Economics and is the co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine (www.philosophersnet.com).
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Einstein's Riddle
- Original publication date
- 2009
- First words
- It is rather shocking just how easy it is to get even a simple riddle wrong.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 793.73 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Indoor games and amusements Non-action games, puzzles [boardgames now 794] Puzzles and puzzle games
- LCC
- PN6371 .S76 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Riddles, acrostics, charades,
- BISAC
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.04)
- Languages
- 7 — English, Finnish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
