Maths Puzzles: Cryptarithms, Symbologies and Secret Codes
Join recreational mathematician, Dr. Yossi Elran, and learn how to solve symbology puzzles, decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, read barcodes, break secret codes and solve cryptarithms. This course is given in English.
In this free online course, we’ll look at three types of math puzzles, explore their history, meet the puzzlists who created them, study and practice problem-solving techniques.
Each week, we’ll tackle a different type of encrypted math puzzle, including cryptarithms, symbologies, and mathematical operator puzzles.
By the end of the course, you’ll have upgraded your problem-solving skills; gained knowledge and insight into the history, art, and methodology of deciphering encrypted puzzles; and exercised your brain with many fun challenges.
Audience:
Math, puzzle, and brain challenge enthusiasts
Time:
Registration is open year-round. The course is intended for self-study at your own leisure (asynchronous) and takes roughly 4 hours a week for 3 weeks.
Place:
Online, through Davidson Institute courses on “Future Learn”.
Price:
Free of charge
How:
Click https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/maths-puzzles
More about the program
This course is in English. It is hosted on “Future Learn”, an international learning platform and course aggregate. Thousands of participants learn in each course, creating a worldwide learning community. Discussions between learners take place during course runs on the comment feature for each step of the course, monitored by the course manager, Dr. Yossi Elran.
The topics covered:
- Encoding math puzzles, secret codes, and symbologies
- Solving and creating cryptarithms – puzzles in which numbers in a mathematical expressions are encoded
- Genres of cryptarithm, including ancient Hindu problems and alphametics puzzles
- Special and unique cryptarithms, including prime numbers, logarithms, square roots, and powers
- Symbologies – from ancient times to modern bar codes
- The language of computers including binary, ternary, and gray codes
- Decrypting ancient Egyptian number systems, Roman and Greek numerals
- Barcode puzzles and how to solve them
- Different types of operator puzzles including unary, binary, and ternary
- Modern operators, including logic operators, text operators, and Excel operators
