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ELAZ said: I read this book and found the problems and accompanying stories original and interesting.
All the same I have to say that I found some serious logical mistakes in some of the solutions and am surprised that reviewers did not seem to notice this.Besides this,in two of the problems the author seems to miss the basic and simple solution to the problem and uses enormously long and complicated methods to solve problems which can be solved in two or three lines. As a result of this enormous waste of energy the author sometimes misses almost obvious generalizations of his problems.
It is painfully and shockingly obvious that those who praise the book unreservedly (and I'm talking here about names like Martin Gardner and Keith Devlin ) had not read the book properly.
I will be happy to elaborate on what I have written here for anybody who is interested.
In spite of all this I still think the book is a remarkable achievement for such a young author and is definitely worth reading.
I will be grateful if anyone can tell me how to contact the author.
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