Catch Hold Of The Tangram Book Put Together By Jerry Slocum In Print

bought this years ago when I started teaching, read it, and have had it on my shelf in my class for my students ever since, I've not finished all of the puzzles, but my students enjoy tackling them on occasion, This is a fascinating book about the fiendishpiece puzzle, The author clearly has a deep love of the subject and has not only invested a lot of time and effort into tracking down the history and exposing some myths of the tangram, but explains the process of the research he made and the assistance he received from others.
Where he assumed, he clearly set out his inferences and

reasoning,

Lest anyone think this is an academic text, the glossy pages are filled with colour pictures that superbly show the old texts and puzzles that he describes.
There are alsotangram puzzles with solutions which, although I did not try all, are varied in shapes and difficulty, In short, this is a beautiful book that would be suitable as a coffee table book, to read to explore the interesting history and to try the tangram puzzles.
With its exquisite photographs and richly informative text, this is simply the best, the most unique, and the most indepth study of the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game.


This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the worlds most popular and intriguing puzzles is an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of tangrams, and also a masterful introduction to puzzle solving, with more than,alltime tangrams.
This accurate history of the classic Chinese art form comes from a tangram museum owner and his research team, who discovered many treasures, such as the tangram sets used by Chinese mathematicians,years ago to test Pythagorean theorems.
Photos show how to arrange tangramshaped antique dinner tables for a variety of themes such as mountain ranges and celebration costumes, Among the puzzles for you to solve: Paradoxical Pairs that appear to be identical but differ in a hardtodetect detail,
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