Quotations

Henry Ernest Dudeney


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A good puzzle should demand the exercise of our best wit and ingenuity, and although a knowledge of mathematics and of logic are often of great service in the solution of these things, yet it sometimes happens that a kind of natural cunning and sagacity is of considerable value.
The history of Mathematical Puzzles entails nothing short of the actual story of the beginnings and development of exact thinking in man.
Amusements in Mathematics