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BL
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624802
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| Main Entry
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Rosenhouse, Jason.
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| Title & Author
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Taking sudoku seriously : : the math behind the world's most popular pencil puzzle /\ Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, c2011
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xii, 214 p. :: ill. (some col.) ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780199756568 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0199756562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Playing the game: mathematics as applied puzzle-solving -- Latin squares: what do mathematicians do? -- Greco-Latin squares: the problem of the thirty-six officers -- Counting: it's harder than it looks -- Equivalence classes: the importance of being essentially identical -- Why the natural approach fails -- Searching: the art of finding needles in haystacks -- Graphs: dots, lines, and sudoku -- Polynomials: we finally found a use for algebra -- Extremes: sudoku pushed to its limits -- Epilogue: you can never have too many puzzles
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Sudoku.
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Mathematics-- Social aspects
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| Dewey Classification
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793.74
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| LC Classification
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GV1507.S83R67 2011
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GV1507.S83R67 2011
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| Added Entry
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Taalman, Laura.
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