Wow! eBook
The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions reprint Edition
Author(s): Martin Gardner (Author)
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 1991
- Edition: reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 0226282562
- ISBN-13: 9780226282565
Book Description
Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambling odds". Gardner conjures problems that are both profound and silly; exquisite truths and outrageous absurdities; paradoxes, anagrams, palindromes and party tricks. . . . He knows, better than most, how many amazing true things there are in the world". -Newsweek
