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Geometric Puzzle Design
Author(s): Stewart Coffin (Author)
- Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
- Publication Date: 27 July 2017
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: 113842725X
- ISBN-13: 9781138427259
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
There are many books on solving puzzles, but Coffin’s book is different. It is one of the few books on the design and making of puzzles. . . . Coffin successfully gives the reader an insight into how a puzzle designer thinks; one can begin to see how he has come up with the ideas for his puzzles.
―Leanne Rylands, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, May 2009
A most entertaining read … to provide the necessary bit of relaxation to allow one’s genuine mathematical problems to simmer in one’s subconscious.
―P. McMullen, Mathematical Reviews, November 2007
Written by veteran woodworker and expert wood puzzle designer Stewart Coffin, Geometric Puzzle Design is a one-of-a-kind guide to creating intriguing, three-dimensional wooden puzzles. Special techniques for creating oddly shaped small puzzle pieces accurately and safely, recommendations for drafting one’s own original designs, mathematical concepts that can be applied as engineering tools, and much more fill this original craftsman’s manual. A ‘must-have’ for intermediate to advanced woodworkers seeking to create truly brain-teasing gifts.
―Midwest Book Review, June 2007
