Lloyd Strickland Volgorde van de boeken

Leave logic at the door and prepare to test your creative thinking skills with these 100 brand new lateral thinking puzzles. Each puzzle describes a situation which at first sounds odd or unlikely, and you have to work your way to the answer using creativity, imagination, and intuition. To cater for all ability levels, the 100 puzzles are arranged into Easy, Moderate, and Difficult categories, and a series of hints is provided for each puzzle to help you along if you get stuck. As lateral thinking puzzles are fun, engaging, and make good icebreakers, they are a perennial favourite at dinner parties, break times, and social evenings.

"Among his extraordinary mathematical and philosophical achievements, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) invented binary arithmetic, the representational basis for today's world of digital computing and communications. This book will be the first to make a selection of his writings available in English. Strickland and Lewis provide an accessible introduction to Leibniz through some twenty mostly unpublished manuscripts dealing with binary notation, algorithms for binary arithmetic, and related topics. The book includes an introduction analyzing the history of the binary system and Leibniz's claim to priority and short introductions to each of the chapters"-- Provided by publisher