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Reprinted in 2014 as Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #4); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press. Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American (1971), W.H. Freeman and Company
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.
The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe.It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity (the symmetry of mirrored quantum systems) is ever violated, which had been proven experimentally in 1956.
The Annotated Alice is a 1960 book by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carroll's major tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), as well as the original illustrations by John Tenniel.
Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements is a book by Martin Gardner published in 1983. The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has recommended its inclusion in undergraduate mathematics libraries. [1]
“The Bastard Stepchild” (Introduction) by George R. R. Martin “Death by Dahlia” by Charlaine Harris “The Bleeding Shadow” by Joe R. Lansdale “Hungry Heart” by Simon R. Green “Styx and Stones” by Steven Saylor “Pain and Suffering” by S. M. Stirling “It’s Still the Same Old Story” by Carrie Vaughn
The book was expanded from an article first published in the Antioch Review in 1950, [7] and in the preface to the first edition, Gardner thanks the Review for allowing him to develop the article as the starting point of his book. [8] Not all material in the article is carried over to the book. For example, in the article, Gardner writes:
The original text continues to be available as of 2008 from Macmillan and Co., but a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Press which provides an introduction; three preliminary chapters explaining functions, limits, and derivatives; an appendix of recreational calculus problems; and notes for modern readers. [1]
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