Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes

Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical ParadoxesDo all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous with difficulty? This original collection of mathematical puzzles and paradoxes proves that things aren't always what they seem! Readers will discover that nothing is as easy or as difficult as it looks and that puzzles can have one, several, or no solutions. The fun filled puzzles begin with The Tricky Hole, a challenge that involves pushing a large coin through a small hole in a sheet of paper

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integration of Euler's equation in special cases

while other students benefit from the consequent simplicity of the proofs for many theorems

a gentleman-physician barely escapes the gallows after his arrest for treating a wounded rebel

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Fully worked-out solutions are included for some of the problems

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