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Title: The Price of Cake: And 99 Other Classic Mathematical Riddles
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262545241
ISBN 13: 9780262545242
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Mac� De L�pinay, Laure
Condition: acceptable

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Ingeniously designed mathematical riddles to delight armchair—and seasoned—mathematicians, in high school and beyond.

In The Price of Cake, brothers Cl�ment and Guillaume Deslandes have assembled a uniquely rich and accessible collection of mathematical riddles, organized by difficulty and accompanied by unique hand-drawn illustrations. The challenges are exceptional in both their range and their precision. There are no “tricks” here—just good math to test your skills.

While any student will be thrilled to encounter fresh presentations of classic conundrums such as Simpson’s paradox, Hilbert's infinite hotel, Monty Hall’s paradox, and Seven Bridges of K�nigsberg, seasoned solvers will also appreciate challenging original puzzles using the Axiom of Choice and Conway’s Soldiers problem. The Deslandes’ lucid and elegant solutions offer new insights, as they seamlessly connect the skills applied in each problem to broader theoretical revelations. Moreover, as Fields Medalist C�dric Villani writes in his preface, these riddles are much more than just exercises. They capture “a certain dose of decorum and mystery,” and to decipher them will require both imagination and tenacity.

To aid you on this journey, the authors provide hints to each puzzle, detailed proofs and solutions, and a series of Math Refreshers to revisit important concepts that are used to arrive at those answers. Entertaining and rigorous in equal measure, The Price of Cake is bound to captivate mathematics enthusiasts and students of all levels.

About the Author

Cl�ment Deslandes is a current PhD candidate in mathematics at the �cole Polytechnique in France.

Guillaume Deslandes teaches undergraduate-level mathematics at Lyc�e Stanislas in Paris.

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