A Hen and a Half: Intriguing Conundrums, Confusing Paradoxes, Baffling Conjectures & Challenging Puzzles - Tarquin (Paperback)

Intriguing Conundrums, Confusing Paradoxes, Baffling Conjectures and Challenging Puzzles

The title comes from the author's simple challenge:

If a Hen and a half, lay an Egg and a half in a Day and a half, how many eggs would 3 hens lay in a week?  Get working... 

This collection of over 50 puzzles and logical problems includes some classic and some new problems. There are short puzzles that require no mathematical knowledge and some that require rigour and mathematical logic.

Accessible, well illustrated and in colour, the book has a unique, friendly readable style. Any puzzle lover will enjoy it and be challenged.

Read the book for fun, or read it and enjoy the process of exploring the application of some serious mathematics.

274 pages