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The first comprehensive bibliography of the publications of polymath Martin Gardner. Martin Gardner (1914-2010) was a polymath whose international reputation extended from mathematics to literature, philosophy to science, and magic…
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Martin Gardner
Step-by-step instructions and nearly 200 simple diagrams show beginners how to make cards vanish and reappear, get coins to pass through solid objects, make articles mysteriously travel from one location…
Fun and fascinating, 89 simple magic tricks will teach both children and adults the scientific principles behind electricity, magnetism, sound, gravity, water, and more. Only basic everyday items are needed…
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Revealing the connections that link Schubert's distinctive sound world to performance practice, social history, aesthetics, organology, analysis and interpretation, this book offers a new understanding of Schubert's piano music for…
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Scientific American
How many people achieve a cult following because of their writing in mathematics? Only a handful, and Martin Gardner is among the most well known and well loved. Not only…
Martin Gardner was an extraordinarily prolific writer whose work had a profound influence on the field of recreational mathematics. This book is a collection of articles, some by Gardner, others…
Martin Gardner,Douglas Hofstadter
Martin Gardner, the Mathematical Games columnist for Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, was also a philosopher, polymath, magician, religious thinker, and the author of more than 70 books, including…
Presents a collection of poems and poetic parodies. This book includes the work by several famous authors in their own right. It features the original poems first, followed by their…
Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland…
Includes topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland. This title takes readers from author’s childhood in Oklahoma to his college days at the University of…
This is the second of the updated collection of Mathematical Games from Martin Gardner, the king of recreational mathematics. As well as the classic puzzles, Gardner has updated all the…
An imaginative collection of pieces created in tribute to Martin Gardner. Best known for his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American , Gardner used his fascination with puzzles and magic…
Originallly published in hardcover in 2009 by Hill and Wang.
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Originally published in 1935, here is Martin Gardner’s collection of more than 70 impromptu tricks with matches. A Brownstone Classic of Magic.
Introduces us to this extraordinary man, Dr Irving Joshua Matrix. Believed by many to be the greatest numerologist who ever lived, Dr Matrix claims to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras…
This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important…
Of all of Martin Gardners writings, none gained him a wider audience or was more central to his reputation than his Mathematical Recreations column in Scientific American - which virtually…
This work contains puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet, to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus.
A collection of essays by one of the America’s foremost polymaths delving into some subjects in which Martin Gardner has had an abiding interest.
Suitable for longtime Gardner readers, this work offers a selection of stimulating intellectual wonders. It discusses two neglected works by G K Chesterton, one of which concerns an imaginary but…
Narrates the spiritual odyssey of Peter, a young man from a Pentecostal fundamentalist background, who loses his faith while a student at the University of Chicago Divinity School. This book…
Traces the beginnings of this beloved poem and its gradual rise to fame as an indispensable part of America’s Christmas celebration. Beginning with a discussion about whether or not to…
Previously published separately, the two books aha! Gotcha and aha! Insight are here combined as a single volume. The aha! books, as they are referred to by fans of the…
Those who strongly believe in precognition point to Morgan Robertson’s sea novel The Wreck of the Titan , published fourteen years before the Titanic went down, as proof of the…
Martin Gardner returns to charm readers with the latest on packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll. Read about Knuth’s Word Ladders program, new…
Challenge yourself with new twists on the hangman’s paradox, cat’s cradle, gambling, peg solitaire, pi and e. All of these and more are back in Martin Gardner’s inimitable style, with…
Introduces readers to probability paradoxes, the attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson’s success promoting The Course of Miracles , which is said to have been channelled by…
This is the first book of the updated collection of Mathematical Games from Martin Gardner, the king of recreational mathematics. As well as the classic puzzles, in this 2008 edition…
A collection of articles which explores pseudoscience and strange religious beliefs. This book covers a range of topics - including UFOs, rainmaking, ghosts, the Big Bang, ESP, Oral Roberts, as…
Famed puzzle expert explains math behind a multitude of mystifying tricks: card tricks, stage mind reading, coin and match tricks, counting out games, geometric dissections, etc. More than 400 tricks…
Contains Lewis Carroll’s poem, The Hunting of the Snark , along with Martin Gardner’s Snarkteasers , which includes questions, such as: can you rearrange the letters of ocean to spell…
Includes thirty-four essays by some of the eminent philosophers, scientists, and writers on the fundamental aspects of modern science. This title presents an informal history of the people and ideas…
This book presents a collection of problems and puzzles, and provides the tools and projects to furnish all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout and which foster an agility of the…
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite short puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic…
Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
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Bizarre imagination, originality, trickiness, and whimsy characterize puzzles of Sam Loyd, America’s greatest puzzler. Present selection from fabulously rare Cyclopedia. 150 period line drawings.
Second collection of amusing, thought-provoking problems and puzzles from the Cyclopedia. Arithmetic, algebra, speed and distance problems, game theory, counter and sliding block problems, similar topics. 166 problems. 150 original…
A prominent popular science writer presents simple instructions for 100 illustrated experiments. Memorable, easily understood experiments illuminate principles related to astronomy, chemistry, physiology, psychology, mathematics, topology, probability, acoustics, other areas.
