MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES OF SAM LOYD: VOLUME 2 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Sam Loyd,Martin Gardner | 167 pages | 01 Jun 1959 | Dover Publications Inc. | 9780486204987 | English | New York, United States Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Martin Gardner Editor. Bizarre imagination, originality, trickiness, and whimsy characterize puzzles of Sam Loyd, America's greatest puzzler. Present selection from fabulously rare Cyclopedia includes the famous 14—15 puzzles, the Horse of a Different Color, and others in various areas of elementary math. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published June 1st by Dover Publications first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. 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In , ChessBase posted a fifth variation, attributed to Brian Stewart. After the first bullet took out the knight, if the second had removed the g-pawn rather than the h-pawn, Charles would be able to mate in ten. One of Loyd's notable puzzles was the "Trick Donkeys". It was based on a similar puzzle involving dogs published in In the problem, the solver must cut the drawing along the dotted lines and rearrange the three pieces so that the riders appear to be riding the donkeys. This is one of Sam Loyd's most famous puzzles, first printed in the New York Journal and Advertiser , April 24, as far as available evidence indicates. Loyd's original instructions were to:. Start from that heart in the center and go three steps in a straight line in any one of the eight directions, north, south, east or west, or on the bias , as the ladies say, northeast, northwest, southeast or southwest. When you have gone three steps in a straight line, you will reach a square with a number on it, which indicates the second day's journey, as many steps as it tells, in a straight line in any of the eight directions. From this new point when reached, march on again according to the number indicated, and continue on, following the requirements of the numbers reached, until you come upon a square with a number which will carry you just one step beyond the border, when you are supposed to be out of the woods and can holler all you want, as you will have solved the puzzle. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For people with a similar name, see Samuel Lloyd disambiguation. Philadelphia , United States. Main article: Excelsior chess problem. Sam Loyd's "Excelsior". Mate in 5, 2nd prize, Paris Tourney, See " Excelsior " for the solution. Sam Loyd's "Steinitz Gambit". Mate in 3 moves. First Prize, Checkmate Novelty Tourney, Main article: Famous Trick Donkeys. Main article: Back from the Klondike. Cyclopedia of Puzzles. New York: Lamb Publishing Company. Retrieved December 14, — via Internet Archive. World Chess Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on White, Sam Loyd and his chess problems, , p. Impossible puzzles Maze video games Nikoli puzzle types Puzzle video games Puzzle topics. Categories : births deaths Puzzle designers Recreational mathematicians Mathematics popularizers American chess players American chess writers American male non-fiction writers Chess composers Sportspeople from Philadelphia American people of Welsh descent Writers from Philadelphia People involved in plagiarism controversies 19th-century chess players. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. 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At his peak, Loyd was one of the best chess players in the US, and was ranked 15th in the world, according to chessmetrics Samuel Loyd January 30, — April 10, , born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. At his peak, Loyd was one of the best chess players in the US, and was ranked 15th in the world, according to chessmetrics. He played in the strong Paris chess tournament won by Ignatz von Kolisch with little success, placing near the bottom of the field. Following his death, his book Cyclopedia of Puzzles was published by his son. His son, named after his father, dropped the "Jr" from his name and started publishing reprints of his father's puzzles. Loyd is widely acknowledged as one of America's great puzzle-writers and popularizers, often mentioned as the greatest—Martin Gardner called him "America's greatest puzzler", and The Strand in dubbed him "the prince of puzzlers". As a chess problemist, his composing style is distinguished by wit and humour. Books by Sam Loyd. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Sam Loyd — was America's greatest originator of puzzles. For more than 50 years, his ingenious posers, appearing in innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, stumped and delighted an American public running into the millions. Four or five of his mechanical puzzles became national crazes. After Loyd's death, his son issued a vast collection of these problems in a book entitled "Cyclopedia of Puzzles" — probably the most famous and exciting collection of puzzles ever assembled in one volume. Now Martin Gardner, a well-known author of many science and puzzle books and articles, has selected the choicest mathematical puzzles contained in the long out-of-print "Cyclopedia," editing each one for accuracy and clarity, but in such a way as not to sacrifice the unique style and historical flavor of the originals. This is the second volume of Gardner's selection to appear, and contains of Loyd's most brilliant and original creations, together with the line drawings and diagrams with which they were originally illustrated. A distinctive feature of this new selection is the analytical table of contents, which groups the puzzles according to the type of mathematical skill necessary to solve them. Whatever your taste in mathematical puzzles, you will be able to locate easily puzzles based on arithmetic and algebra; speed and distance problems; game theory; operations research; clock problems; plane geometry; geometrical dissection; route tracing and topological problems; counter and sliding block problems; sold geometry; and physics and calculus problems. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in and Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in To those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one.