# The Inquisitive Problem Solver

### By Paul Vaderlind, Richard Guy, and Loren Larson

Catalog Code: IPS
Print ISBN: 978-0-88385-806-6
300 pp., Paperbound, 2003
List Price: $39.95 MAA Member:$31.95
Series: MAA Problem Books

This is a book of 256 mathematical gems meant to stimulate and entertain. However, on a deeper level, these little puzzles, accessible to a general audience, provide a setting so rich in mathematical themes. One of the larger purposes of the book is to show how everyday situations can lead an inquisitive problem solver to profound and far-reaching mathematical principles. Discussions accompanying the problems reinforce important techniques in discrete mathematics, and the solutions, which require verbal arguments, show that proofs and careful reasoning are at the core of doing mathematics. In addition, anyone reading this book will learn that asking good questions is just as important to the progress of mathematics as answering questions.

Preface
Problems
Hints
Solutions
Responses to Queries
The Treasury