(Ebook) Creative Puzzles to Ignite Your Mind by Shyam Sunder Gupta ISBN 9789811965647, 9811965641

(Ebook) Creative Puzzles to Ignite Your Mind by Shyam Sunder Gupta ISBN 9789811965647, 9811965641

The author takes great pleasure in presenting the book, Creative Puzzles to IgniteYour Mind, which is a great treasure for everybody who enjoys the beauty of thefascinating world of recreational mathematics. The book has been written keepingin view a large number of people who can be benefitted by reading the book. Apartfrom puzzle enthusiasts and math lovers, the book is considered of immense valuefor aspirants of Mathematics Olympiad, CAT/MBA and placement interviews ofbig companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, NVidia,Oracle, Adobe, Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg and so on.The book covers a large variety of intriguing puzzles with detailed ingenioussolutions generally not found elsewhere. The puzzles can be browsed at random asthese are not grouped in any orderly manner. The book is a result of collection andframing of puzzles to make them entertaining over a large period of thirty-fiveyears, so references/sources of many puzzles are not available.Only basic mathematics is required to solve these puzzles. But most of thesepuzzles are tricky and can be simplified by ingenious ideas. Chapter 4 providesdetailed ingenious solutions to all 125 creative puzzles in a lucid manner along withspecial comments section which covers generalization of solutions, different techniquesof attacking the same puzzle wherever possible. This will create interest inreaders for further exploring the puzzle.The title of puzzles has been suitably framed. Repetition of similar type ofpuzzles has been avoided to keep the book in concise form. However, importantaspects of similar puzzles if any have been covered in comments section.Like physical exercise is essential for a healthy body, mental exercise is equallyessential for a healthy brain/mind. Puzzle solving is one of the brain exerciseswhich can also train the mind to solve the real-world problems. So let us not wastetime and start brain exercise as puzzles are eagerly waiting to ignite your mind.