Brain-Flexing Balance Problems & Other Puzzles

by Ivan Moscovich

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Puzzles in perpetual motion-that's what these are! Many of these bright brainteasers focus on ingenious, moving mechanisms, including an ancient Greek door-opening apparatus that featured one of the earliest uses of steam. Check out a perpetuum mobile invented by a famous American mathematician and see if you can successfully explain its theoretical principle of operation. A cartoon depicts a classic Lewis Carroll conundrum: there's a monkey hanging...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:140272733X

ISBN13:9781402727337

Release Date:August 2006

Publisher:Sterling Publishing (NY)

Length:128 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"

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