The Moscow Puzzles

Shared by Amina Touré • mathematics, soviet literature, recreational mathematics • 1972

359 Mathematical Recreations Edited and with an introduction by Martin Gardner Illustrations by Yevgeni Konstantinovich Argutinsky The book now in the reader’s hands is the first English translation of Mathematical Know-how, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956, there have been eight editions, as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the Russian version alone have been sold. Outside the U.S.S.R., the book has been published in Bulgaria,