Het grote breinbreker boek (1)|Ivan Moscovich 9789020999952

||boek: Het grote breinbreker boek|De 1000 beste puzzels, raadsels en doordenkers|Lannoo

||door: Ivan Moscovich

||taal: nl
||jaar: 2011
||druk: 2e druk
||pag.: 432p
||opm.: softcover|zo goed als nieuw|>A4 formaat

||isbn: 978-90-209-9995-2
||code: 1:002555

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De 1000 beste puzzels - absolute klassiekers en nooit eerder gepubliceerde breinbrekers - in uiteenlopende categorieën zoals meetkunde, patronen, logica en kansberekening. Wat was er eerst: de kip of het ei? Hoeveel snijpunten kunnen vijf lijnen maximaal hebben? Hoeveel koeien en struisvogels zijn er als je 35 koppen en 94 poten hebt geteld? En waarom zijn putdeksels rond? Zet je schrap voor uren denkplezier en breinkost voor het hele gezin, dankzij een handig beoordelingsysteem van niveau 1 (opwarmertjes) tot 10 (zeer moeilijk).

[bron: flaptekst]

Uren lang denkplezier [2018-04-18]

Het is een erg leuk boek waarin 1000 raadsels staan van verschillende niveaus. Dit is in het boek goed aangegeven. Je kunt je echt vastbijten in een raadsel. Je kunt van dit boek heel lang plezier hebben. Tijdloos. Er is geen ruimte in het boek om iets op te schrijven (zou ook zonde zijn). Hiervoor zou ik een apart schrift aanraden. De oplossingen staan allemaal achter in het boek gegeven.

Els5975 [bron: https--www.bol.com]

Leuk maar opletten voor fouten [2020-04-16]

Het is een leuk en inspirerend boek. We doen de raadsels en puzzels elke week al sinds een paar weken. We hebben wel gemerkt dat er behoorlijk wat fouten in de puzzels zitten; een aantal oplossingen kloppen niet (!) daarbij vinden we vaak een te onduidelijke uitleg waardoor er bepaalde zinnen in de formulering missen die je nodig hebt voor de oplossing. In de vertaling zitten ook een aantal constructies die niet kloppen ( er lijkt vaak een letterlijke vertaling te zijn vanuit het engels zonder inhoudelijke kennis van de puzzels te hebben). We zijn kritisch (op de te onduidelijke uitleg) maar dat komt ook omdat het deels ons vak is om puzzels, raadsels, recruitmentgames en escape rooms te maken en/of te bedenken. Een goede formulering, taaltechnisch, is nodig om een raadsel goed te presenteren.

Joume [bron: https--www.bol.com]

Te gek cadeau! [2012-11-27]

Wauw, als je van puzzelen en raadsels houdt is dit echt een briljant boek. Super dik, vol met opdrachten en raadsels. En omdat er verschillende niveaus inzitten kan je met het hele gezin samen puzzelen uit 1 boek. Hij gaat standaard mee op vakantie!

Geanonimiseerd [bron: https--www.bol.com]

De auteur selecteerde zijn beste werk voor dit kloeke puzzelboek. Het opent met een dankwoord, gevolgd door een inhoudsopgave, voorwoord door wiskundige Ian Stewart, inleiding en gebruiksaanwijzing. De puzzels staan op categorie: meetkunde, punten en lijnen, grafen en netwerken, krommen en cirkels, vormen en veelhoeken, patronen, getallen, logica en kansberekening, topologie, wetenschap en waarneming. Het eerste hoofdstuk behandelt nadenken over denkspellen en het laatste is een bonusronde. Het boek eindigt met oplossingen, bronnen en een register op moeilijkheidsgraad. De puzzels zijn genummerd en omkaderd. Elk kopje noemt het denkniveau (een tot tien) en de benodigdheden. Ook kan men invullen of de puzzel voltooid is en hoe lang dit duurde. Algemene informatie staat in grote kaders tegen een lichtgele achtergrond en citaten staan in bloklekkers tegen een lichtblauwe achtergrond. Achterin staan een bronvermelding en een register van moeilijkheidsniveaus. Groot formaat met erg kleurrijke lay-out, driekolommendruk. Het boek hanteert een schreefloze letter. Door uiteenlopende moeilijkheidsgraad is dit werk geschikt voor zowel jongeren als volwassenen die er, dankzij de grote hoeveelheid puzzels, niet snel op uitgekeken zal raken. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.

[bron: nbd biblion]

Het grote breinbreker boek - midprice
De 1000 beste puzzels, raadsels en doordenkers
Ivan Moscovich

De veel geprezen puzzelbijbels van Ivan Moscovich: Uren puzzelplezier voor een heel scherpe prijs

De breinbrekerboeken van puzzelgrootmeester Ivan Moscovich worden internationaal geprezen vanwege hun originaliteit en volledigheid. Van logica over meetkunde tot kansberekening en patronen: alle aspecten van puzzelen komen uitgebreid aan bod. De boeken zijn bovendien prachtig geïllustreerd en onderverdeeld in verschillende categorieën volgens moeilijkheid.

[bron: https--www.lannoocampus.nl/nl/het-grote-breinbreker-boek-midprice-0]

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Ivan Moscovich (Nijmegen) is een internationaal erkende autoriteit op het vlak van puzzels en raadsels. Hij begon zijn loopbaan als ontwerper van educatieve spelletjes en ontwierp veelgeprezen spelletjes voor onder meer Mattel en Ravensburger. Zijn boeken zijn vertaald in meer dan 15 talen. Wereldwijd werden er miljoenen exemplaren van verkocht.

[bron: https--www.lannoo.be/nl/ivan-moscovich-0]

Ivan Moscovich (Ada (Servië), 14 juni 1926 - 21 april 2023) was een Joegoslavisch-Nederlandse bedenker van raadsels en puzzels. Hij heeft daarnaast tientallen boeken geschreven over onder meer wiskunde.

Biografie

Moscovich was van Joodse afkomst en groeide op in Novi Sad. Zijn vader was een Hongaars schilder, die in 1922 in Joegoslavië ging wonen. Hij zette daar een fotostudio op, genaamd Photo Ivan. Hij werd ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog vermoord door Hongaarse fascisten. Moscovich zelf werd in 1943 door de Duitsers gedeporteerd naar Auschwitz, waar hij twee jaar lang met zijn moeder verbleef. Tijdens zijn verblijf in een van de werkkampen legde hij spoorwegen aan. Nadat het Britse leger hem en zijn moeder hadden bevrijd, bracht hij een jaar in Zweden door om te herstellen. Hierna werkte hij opnieuw in de spoorwegenbouw voor het Joegoslavische ministerie van Transport. Een half jaar lang had hij in deze functie de leiding over een groep Duitse krijgsgevangenen.

Om de traumatische herinneringen te verdringen, ontwierp Moscovich in 1949 zijn eerste puzzels. Hij liet zich inspireren door het werk van Leonhard Euler, een Zwitserse natuur- en wiskundige uit de achttiende eeuw. Begin jaren vijftig verhuisde Moscovich naar Israël, waar hij als onderzoeker voor het ministerie van Defensie werkte. In 1955 richtte hij in Tel Aviv een wetenschapsmuseum op. Hij heeft onder meer voor speelgoedfabrikant Mattel gewerkt. Van 1986 tot 2002 woonde Moscovich in Londen, waarna hij verhuisde naar Nijmegen. Het door hem samengestelde Grote breinbreker boek werd wereldwijd meer dan een miljoen keer verkocht.

[bron: wikipedia]

Nationalité: Israël
Né(e) à: Novi Sad, 1926
Biographie:

Ivan Moscovich est un créateur très inventif de jeux, puzzles, jouets et matériel éducatif, auteur également de livres.

Né de parents hongrois, il perdit son père pendant la dernière guerre et fut lui-même emprisonné dans des camps nazis.

Il fit des études de mécanique à l'université de Belgrade et s'installa en Israël. Il travailla dans la recherche scientifique, puis s'orienta vers la création de matériel éducatif et de jeux éducatifs. Il eut l'idée de créer un musée de la Science à Tel Aviv, créé en 1964 et qui fonctionna jusqu'à la fin des années 70. Il s'y tint des expositions sur la science et les mathématiques, grands succès auprés des enseignants.

Il a créé des oeuvres d'art par ordinateur. Les créations cinétiques d'Ivan Moscovitch furent exposées dans de grands musées comme ICA, London; International Design Centrum, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico.

Ses jeux ont été diffusés par de nombreux fabricants: Hasbro, Pressman, Mattel, Peter Pan, Spears, Ravensburger, Childcraft, Invicta.

Il a publié de nombreux livres sur la science, l'art et les mathématiques, qui furent traduits dans 12 langues.

[source: https--www.babelio.com/auteur/Ivan-Moscovich/203486]

Ivan Moscovich (born in the former Yugoslavia) is a game designer who has also created puzzles, toys, and educational aids.

When Hungary occupied the Yugoslavia area, his father was killed and he was sent to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, and others until he was liberated by British troops in 1945.

[source: https--boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/2709/ivan-moscovich]

We mourn the passing of Ivan Moscovich (1926-2023) [2023-11-05]

Concentration camp survivor Ivan Moscovich died on 21 April 2023, shortly before his 97th birthday.

Ivan Moscovich was a creative mind world-renowned in the field of mathematical-logical games and puzzles. He worked together with one of the largest toy manufacturers, showcasing his creations at the Nuremberg Toy Fair right into old age. He was an inventor, but also so much more: an artist, a museum founder and director, an engineer ... In Israel in the 1960s he built a mechanical device, the 'harmonograph', which he used to create 'kinetic images', a trailblazing novelty at the time. It was only shortly before the end of his life that he was rediscovered as a pioneer of computer art and honoured with exhibitions in London and San Francisco.

Ivan Moscovich was born and raised in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, the son of a Jewish-Hungarian artist and photographer. Ivan Moscovich was 15 years old when fascist Hungary occupied parts of Yugoslavia in 1941. His father was arrested and murdered within the first few days of the takeover (his mother would later survive Mauthausen Concentration Camp). The massacre of Jews and Serbs began soon thereafter. Ivan, his mother and his grandmother were made to line up on the banks of the Danube, in a long queue of people being murdered one after the other. 'And just before it was our turn, an officer riding a white horse arrived and put a stop to the killing. A white horse!' As he retold this story, the incredulous amazement that he had somehow miraculously survived not just that time, but on several other occasions was still palpable.

In late 1943, after Germany had occupied Hungary, Ivan was deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. What followed was a long odyssey: the main camp and the satellite camps; the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen; from there, assignments to slave labour in Hildesheim and the Neuengamme satellite camp at Hannover-Ahlem. Until - back at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp - he lay down on a heap of corpses either to rest or simply to die; he himself had no idea for how long. Then, suddenly, he heard English voices; he rolled down the heap of dead bodies and found himself at the feet of a British officer: liberation at last!

From Bergen-Belsen he went to Sweden, where he was nursed back to health, and then returned to Yugoslavia. There he studied mechanical engineering and repaired destroyed railway tracks - all the while having to supervise 50 German prisoners-of-war. The roles were now reversed and he could have given vent to his anger - but didn't: 'I had ten kilometres of rails to get out that week and it was a real dilemma whether to screw the Germans or to try to get the best output from them. I decided to increase their rations to get more work out of them, and sure enough they were grateful and worked even harder, which increased the output. I was very, very tough with them and I think they were scared of me. But I never revealed to them that I was a camp survivor.'

In the early 1950s Ivan Moscovich went to Israel, where he met his future wife Anitta in 1955, with whom he would share his life for 68 years ('without her I would not be here with you today'). In 1959, he was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Museum of Science and Technology and went on to become its director when it opened in 1964. In that capacity, Ivan became a pioneer of interactive 'hands-on' exhibition formats and modern museum education. Eventually, he and Anitta moved to London, having acquired from his father a definite fondness for Britain and the British way of life. In 2001, they both moved to the Netherlands to be with their daughter's family.

Ivan never joined any associations of concentration camp survivors and said that he never really wanted to tell his story. Much later, at the urging of his wife, he did in the end write the book The Puzzleman (which the Hannover-Ahlem Memorial published in German, too). It was not until 2016 that he came to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial for the first time for the commemoration ceremonies; in 2017 he gave the speech at the 72nd anniversary of the liberation. He began to give talks at schools and adult groups. He very deliberately omitted certain things ('the worst details') and talked not only about the horror and his fury, but also - particularly in front of school classes - of those isolated instances (few in number) where he had received some measure of support from Germans. Many of his audiences (and friends, too) were surprised that he did not put Auschwitz at the centre of his narrative. And the fact that he focused on other places such as Bergen-Belsen and the Ahlem Concentration Camp in Hanover, both of which he recalled as being particularly horrific and cruel: '[In Ahlem] we were hysterically driven by the crazed SS guards and the capos to accomplish it, while mercilessly killing and decimating my group.'

Ivan Moscovich died peacefully on 21 April 2023, shortly before his 97th birthday.

We are most grateful for the friendship that ensued both with him and his wife Anitta. Theirs was a special kind of generosity: Ivan Moscovich made a very specific distinction between those people who had tormented him and those he met later on in his life.

Obituary by Marco Kühnert and Ulrich Gantz [source: https--www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/en/news/news/wir-trauern-um-ivan-moscovich]

Ivan Moscovich was a designer and commercial developer of puzzles, games, toys, and educational aids. He wrote many books and is internationally recognized in the toys industry as an innovative inventor. Ivan was a survivor of the Holocaust and the founder of Israel's Museum of Science and Technology in Tel Aviv. In 2023, he passed away at nearly 97 years old.

[source: https--www.artofplay.com/pages/ivan-moscovich]

The Brain Games that Saved 93-Year-Old Ivan Moscovich [2019-07-03]

World-renowned artist and toymaker Ivan Moscovich describes himself as an inventor first and a workaholic second.

The 93-year-old, who lives in the Netherlands, has spent the past 75 years creating brain games like his globally successful board game, The Amazing Magic Robot, as well as hundreds of puzzles and artwork for people ages 4 to 104. As if that weren't enough, Moscovich is also a renowned scientist, mathematician, author and founder of Tel Aviv's Israel Museum of Science and Technology in 1964.

Moscovich's artwork, which can be found in London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Mexico City and Basel, made its Los Angeles debut June 26 at the h Club in West Hollywood, where his 74-piece kinetic art collection will be displayed and on sale for a year.

His persistence to create comes from spending the first 18 years of his life surviving the Novi Sad raid in Hungary (after the annexation of former Yugoslavian territories); two Nazi work camps; and four concentration camps including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

Moscovich told the Journal that his creative abilities saved his life and, after he was liberated, he never looked back, for fear the traumas of the Holocaust would swallow him whole.

"Ever since liberation, I became a workaholic, which was basically an escape from the traumas, so therefore I had to [invent] and I did it in an obsessive way," he said. "Workaholics - it's a disease, it's an illness. ... This year one of my last puzzles came out and it's probably one of my best. It is a great mathematical concept. ... It's a beautiful game. It's called the 30-Cubed. It's a set of 30 cubes in which you can play [an] endless number of games. You're solving mathematical concepts through shape, color and numbers and it's becoming a success."

It's a rare thing when math, science and art can blend in a fun way but Moscovich has made a career out of it.

"Creativity is the thing that joins [math, science and art] together," he said. "I learned from my father to be creative. I didn't have it before. [My father] was killed later by the Hungarians. Doing what I did for 75 years was enough time to make me become a creative person."

Moscovich developed his first American invention in Los Angeles in 1965 when Mattel founders Elliot and Ruth Handler took an interest in him while he was working at the museum. They wanted to hire him to make puzzles and games.

Moscovich remembers not paying attention to them when they visited him in Israel but was shocked when, after Mattel flew him to Los Angeles, they picked him up in a limousine and sent him to Disneyland before their meeting. He was 39 at the time and thought it the height of luxury.

Moscovich said he will always remember the harrowing ride to Disneyland because his driver missed the freeway exit, lost control of the vehicle and ended up in oncoming traffic.

"It was an absolute miracle I survived," he said. "I survived Auschwitz and concentration camps but I nearly didn't survive that exit to Disneyland."

But his luck didn't end in L.A. He said he once received a fortune cookie in a Chinese restaurant here that read, "Sell your ideas. They are totally acceptable," and he has kept that piece of paper ever since.

Moscovich went on to work with Mattel and later with European publishers. He sold his puzzles in "The Big Book of Brain Games" and all its editions. Then, in 1968, he decided to invent his own kinetic art. He developed and patented the Harmonograph, an analog machine that creates drawings in a pendulum motion. He has made more than 100 pieces from the Harmonograph - called harmonograms.

Moscovich said each harmonogram, just like every person, is unique. Each viewer is drawn to a different shape and color pattern. Over the years, his favorite color palettes have changed. He is currently drawn to the new black optical illusion shape he created.

"Everything is connected in the world," he said. "The fact that I was in
Auschwitz and four concentration camps, you know, and later an inventor, it's
fully connected."

Like his puzzles, which can have different outcomes, Moscovich knows that his story could have also turned out very differently, perhaps like that of his idol and academic peer, Primo Levi, the Jewish Italian chemist and author who committed suicide 42 years after being liberated from Auschwitz. Levi, Moscovich posited, could not rid the traumas from his memory.

"In one of [Levi's] books, he wrote that 40 years later, still the consequence of Auschwitz is there and quite often he is sitting with his family, playing with his children and suddenly his mind switches over to Auschwitz and is taken over with memories from [there]. ... I had the same symptoms. The difference is ... my mind worked to save me. I needed the escape. The escape was a workaholic game inventor, which is what I became."

It seems the only thing Moscovich hasn't accomplished yet is a lifetime achievement award. The British Toy and Hobby Association plans to remedy that by presenting him with one this November.

His final series of books and puzzles has just been released and is available on Amazon. He enjoys making harmonograms from his living room and spending time with his wife, Anitta, his daughter Hila, and his granddaughter, Emilia, whom he says is becoming a "workaholic actress" in London.

Now that he has achieved everything he wanted out of life, he jokes that he is "ready to die" in the best way possible: "Falling over during a mathematician's lecture."

Erin Ben-Moche [source: https--jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/301059/the-brain-games-that-saved-93-year-old-ivan-moscovich]