{"product_id":"the-bogota-puzzles","title":"The Bogotá Puzzles","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMagical Ellipses \n\u003cbr\u003e My Neighbor's Grandchildren \n\u003cbr\u003e Triangle of Primes and Squares \n\u003cbr\u003e Economical Numbers \n\u003cbr\u003e Mxied Smus \n\u003cbr\u003e Postage Stamps \n\u003cbr\u003e Odd Number \n\u003cbr\u003e Gentle Cube \n\u003cbr\u003e Unlucky Triangle \n\u003cbr\u003e Richard's Family \n\u003cbr\u003e Fourteen Primes \n\u003cbr\u003e Number Snake \n\u003cbr\u003e Naked Sudoku \n\u003cbr\u003e Cross-Number \n\u003cbr\u003e Packing \n\u003cbr\u003e Knights and Rooks \n\u003cbr\u003e Drinking Again? \n\u003cbr\u003e Thirteen Friends and Their Birthdays \n\u003cbr\u003e Squares around a Circle \n\u003cbr\u003e My Five Nieces \n\u003cbr\u003e Sixteen Integers \n\u003cbr\u003e A Million Terms \n\u003cbr\u003e The Housing Estate \n\u003cbr\u003e Alice and Bob's Numbered Cards \n\u003cbr\u003e Products or Sums \n\u003cbr\u003e Five Equations \n\u003cbr\u003e A Few of My Favorite Numbers \n\u003cbr\u003e My Social Security Card Number \n\u003cbr\u003e Peter, Paul, and Mary's Marbles \n\u003cbr\u003e A Tour around a Triangle \n\u003cbr\u003e A Gathering of Number Theorists \n\u003cbr\u003e ID Numbers \n\u003cbr\u003e Who Is Who? \n\u003cbr\u003e Billiard Balls \n\u003cbr\u003e The Snake and the Hunter \n\u003cbr\u003e Self-Numbers \n\u003cbr\u003e Ramanujan Sums \n\u003cbr\u003e Crosses and Circles \n\u003cbr\u003e Shopping Spree \n\u003cbr\u003e Early Bird Numbers \n\u003cbr\u003e Tango \n\u003cbr\u003e Just Threes \n\u003cbr\u003e Some of My Favorite Olympiad Problems \n\u003cbr\u003e A Number Game for Two \n\u003cbr\u003e A Handful of Quickies . . . and Not So Quick \n\u003cbr\u003e One of My PINs \n\u003cbr\u003e Mary and Lucy's Coins \n\u003cbr\u003e Ready for the Music? \n\u003cbr\u003e Six Sisters on the Ski Lift \n\u003cbr\u003e A Soccer Tournament \n\u003cbr\u003e Carpets for My Rooms \n\u003cbr\u003e Two Friends \n\u003cbr\u003e Bags of Marbles \n\u003cbr\u003e Three Farmers \n\u003cbr\u003e Two Numbers \n\u003cbr\u003e Remembering Ramanujan \n\u003cbr\u003e Two Cars \n\u003cbr\u003e Ten Marbles \n\u003cbr\u003e Three Jugs \n\u003cbr\u003e Chess Puzzles \n\u003cbr\u003e Crosswords \n\u003cbr\u003e Infamously \n\u003cbr\u003e Happy Grid \n\u003cbr\u003e Thirty Coins \n\u003cbr\u003e My Late Uncle \n\u003cbr\u003e Thirteen Squares \n\u003cbr\u003e Palindrome \n\u003cbr\u003e A Perfect Crossword \n\u003cbr\u003e Country Mint \n\u003cbr\u003e Autobiographical Number \n\u003cbr\u003e A Knight's Tour \n\u003cbr\u003e The Marathon \n\u003cbr\u003e Wooden Cube \n\u003cbr\u003e As Easy as ABCDEFG \n\u003cbr\u003e Seven Numbers \n\u003cbr\u003e Shopping Bags \n\u003cbr\u003e The Christmas Tennis Tournament \n\u003cbr\u003e Soccer League \n\u003cbr\u003e Prime Board \n\u003cbr\u003e Goodbye and . . . \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColombian mathematician and professor Bernardo Recamán teaches students of all ages, from preschool to university. A devotee of Martin Gardner's books, he is a firm believer in the power of recreational mathematics to illuminate classroom teaching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A Colombian mathematician assembled these eighty brainteasers, forming a stimulating collection of word problems, puzzles involving chess pieces, sudoku-style challenges, and other math-based diversions. The book includes solutions\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalculate the number of a neighbor's grandchildren based on their ages, figure out the denominations of a government's postage stamps, swap the positions of two chess pieces in the least number of moves, and solve other intriguing puzzles with this captivating compendium. \n\u003cbr\u003e Inspired by such illustrious collections as the \n\u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Puzzles\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Moscow Puzzles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Tokyo Puzzles\u003c\/i\u003e, Colombian mathematician and professor Bernardo Recamán assembled these 80 brainteasers, which he acquired while living and working in Bogotá. Recamán's colleagues, students, friends, and acquaintances contributed to this stimulating potpourri of word problems, sudoku-style challenges, and other math-based diversions. 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