Name: New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American

Author: Martin Gardner
Year: 1966
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Science, Mathematics

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9780671209131
0671209132
s/t: More Puzzles, Problems, Games, and Other Mathematical Diversions
Martin Gardner instructs us about mathematics as he entertains us with his wit and sense of the absurd. He stimulates, challenges, and delights his readers. Answers are provided for problems, as well as references for further reading and a bibliography. The Postscript provides updates to the problems.Martin Gardner published his first book in 1935. Since then he has charmed, puzzled, and delighted countless reader. He is best known for the "Mathematical games" column that he edited for Scientific American for twenty-five years and from which much of the material in this book was drawn.

He has published more than forty books including a novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, and his Why of a Philosophical Scrivener. He has received many honors, among them an honorary doctorate form Bucknell University and prized for his science and mathematical writing from the American Institute of Physics and the American Mathematical Society. He is an honorary member of the Mathematical Association of America. Also by Martin Gardner and available from the Mathematical Association of America are Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales, Mathematical Carnival, Mathematical Circus.


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