The Moscow Puzzles

The Moscow PuzzlesThis is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the Russian version alone have been sold. Part of the reason for the book's success is its marvelously varied assortment of brainteasers ranging from simple "catch"

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Each of these three classes of equations is dealt with in one of the remaining three chapters of the book in a manner that is at once rigorous

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This graduate-level text requires a knowledge of fluid mechanics

Chapters 2 through 6 deal with problems in one spatial dimension

It will likewise be indispensable for students in courses in the mathematical theory of games and linear programming

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