Two Thousand Years of Puzzling

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Chris Maslanka traces the history of mankind's seemingly insatiable delight in puzzles.

Chris Maslanka traces the history of puzzles and puzzling from the earliest mazes to the burgeoning puzzle industry of the 19th century and beyond.

Two Thousand Years of Puzzling: Series 1: Recreational Maths!

Recreational Maths!

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In part three of his series celebrating two thousand years of puzzles and puzzling, Chris Maslanka turns, without irony, to the recreational quality of maths.

The third strand of Chris Maslanka's narrative history of Puzzling tackles the territory that brings a sizeable proportion of the population out in a cold sweat. However, he's adamant that there is, and always has been creation and, more to the point recreation in Maths. In the company of the celebrated Mathematician and fellow puzzler David Singmaster he describes the evidence of that over the centuries and together they argue that to teach Maths without the use of puzzles and the inherent satisfaction of their solution is to diminish the language itself.

Two Thousand Years of Puzzling: Series 1

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