Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- A history of recreational mathematics
- Popular puzzles
- Advanced puzzles
- 36 The engineer's dilemma
- 37 Lost in space
- 38 A tall story
- 39 The mathematical garden
- 40 Round the clock
- 41 Pet hate
- 42 Sum secret
- 43 Selfish sons
- 44 The Three Bears
- 45 Cryptic cave lines
- 46 The three prisoners
- 47 Taking a bath
- 48 The balanced bridge
- 49 Elixir of life
- 50 The great escape
- 51 Logical legacy
- 52 Wire wizards
- 53 The broken pentomino
- 54 One for the road
- 55 In the same boat
- Hints
- Solutions
- References
46 - The three prisoners
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- A history of recreational mathematics
- Popular puzzles
- Advanced puzzles
- 36 The engineer's dilemma
- 37 Lost in space
- 38 A tall story
- 39 The mathematical garden
- 40 Round the clock
- 41 Pet hate
- 42 Sum secret
- 43 Selfish sons
- 44 The Three Bears
- 45 Cryptic cave lines
- 46 The three prisoners
- 47 Taking a bath
- 48 The balanced bridge
- 49 Elixir of life
- 50 The great escape
- 51 Logical legacy
- 52 Wire wizards
- 53 The broken pentomino
- 54 One for the road
- 55 In the same boat
- Hints
- Solutions
- References
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Puzzles for Pleasure , pp. 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994