For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was "Scientific American's" renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short an...
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Oct 16, 2008
Mark
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When I subscribed to Scientific American as a kid, I always skipped ahead to Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column much the same way I skip ahead to the obituary page in the Economist today. Or the way my future 2086 self will page down to the "Intestinal Topology" bitfeed in the Re-Animated Evening Post (OK I'll stop now).
Each chapter is organized from easy (usually a trick question) to very very difficult. Half the fun is seeing how long you can survive puzzlin More...
Each chapter is organized from easy (usually a trick question) to very very difficult. Half the fun is seeing how long you can survive puzzlin More...
Apr 15, 2009
Glenn
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Gardner has probably done more than anyone else to spur interest in recreational mathematics, so five stars to him for that and to this book, a vast collection of fun math related puzzles and problems that run the gamut from fairly easy to very difficult. A lot of these were from his Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American, which he wrote for more than 25 years.
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