The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly...
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The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems by Gardner, Martin

The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

$92.50

The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

$92.50
Author: Martin Gardner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations in physics, probability, topology, and chess, among others. Grouped by subject and arrayed from easiest to hardest, the puzzles gathered here, which complement the lengthier, more involved problems in The Colossal Book of Mathematics, have been selected by Gardner for their illuminating; and often bewildering; solutions. Filled with over 300 illustrations, this new volume even contains nine new mathematical gems that Gardner, now ninety, has been gathering for the last decade. No amateur or expert math lover should be without this indispensable volume; a capstone to Gardner's seventy-year career.

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 12/17/2005
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.04lbs
Size: 9.82h x 7.04w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780393061147


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 94
Science Books & Films 01/01/2006 pg. 26
Science Books & Films Best Bks 01/01/2007 pg. 3

About the Author
Gardner, Martin: - Martin Gardner (1914-2010) is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Lewis Carroll and his work. The author of more than a hundred books, he wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and has been hailed by Douglas Hofstadter as one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century.

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