Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle

by Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman

Book Overview

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics.

How many Sudoku solution squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-three blocks can serve as acceptable Sudoku regions? What is the fewest number of starting clues a sound Sudoku puzzle can have? Does solving Sudoku...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199756562
• ISBN13: 9780199756568
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"