by Dennis Shasha · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497847216
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«La carta cifrada y otros enigmas» is a book of mathematical puzzles by Dennis Shasha, published by Gedisa in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together new puzzles featuring Dr. Ecco, a specialist in solving logic problems. Each challenge, such as the one about Micronesia's air routes, works as a clue within a conspiracy plot and requires the reader's active participation.
First volume of «Nuevas aventuras del Dr. Ecco», intermediate level, in the collection «Los mejores autores de ingenio matemático». Original English edition: «Codes, Puzzles and Conspiracy».
Aimed at fans of brainteasers and intermediate-level mathematical challenges.
Dennis Elliot Shasha is an American professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a division of New York University. He is also an associate director of NYU WIRELESS. His current areas of research include work done with biologists on pattern discovery for microarrays, combinatorial design, network inference, and protein docking; work done with physicists, musicians, and professionals in finance on algorithms for time series; and work on database applications in untrusted environments. Other areas of interest include database tuning and tree and graph matching.
