Games World of Puzzles Collection

"If you're ready for an extra-hard, old-time challenge, have at it!"— Will Shortz

What king made a famous ruling that involved cutting a baby in two? What prophet made deadly stew edible again? Who plotted the execution of John the Baptist? Who was with Jesus at the Transfiguration? What was Paul's secret for being content?

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem.