Puzzles and Paradoxes along with a rich gallery

along with a rich gallery of work by the great masters

The American Family in the Colonial Period will be invaluable to students of early American history and of interest to all who enjoy reading about America's past and its early settlers

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fortified towns in the later Middle Ages

the basic equations of two-dimensional elasticity

Puzzles and Paradoxes along with a rich galleryNoted mathematician T. H. O'Beirne leads readers through a delightful maze of problems and solutions that are as artfully formed as any great poem or melody. Most require little mathematical knowledge, just careful logic and a playful imagination. Each chapter presents a series of thematically related brainteasers: difficult journeys featuring unlikely passengers and inadequate transport; geometric paradoxes; pouring liquid puzzles; cube and color