Taking sudoku seriously :: the math behind the world's most popular pencil puzzle /

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics. How many Sudoku solution squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-t...

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Hauptverfasser: Rosenhouse, Jason (VerfasserIn), Taalman, Laura (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
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Zusammenfassung:Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics. How many Sudoku solution squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-three blocks can serve as acceptable Sudoku regions? What is the fewest number of starting clues a sound Sudoku puzzle can have? Does solving Sudoku require mathematics? Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman show that answering these questions opens the door to a wealth of interesting mathematics. Indee.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199921089
0199921083
1283428067
9781283428064
9786613428066
661342806X
0199913153
9780199913152

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