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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 to another, and more.

Das Jahr 1957 war vielleicht eines der aufregendsten in der Ge­ schichte der Kernphysik" - so schreibt D. Y. Bugg in der Besprechung eines Buches über Betazerfall in The New Scientist am 16. August 1962. "Zu Anfang jenes Jahres ging es wie ein Lauffeuer von Labor zu Labor, daß die Parität nicht erhalten bleibt. Professoren gestikulierten mit den Armen und redeten aufgeregt von Spin, Spiegeln und Anti­ welten, und sogar junge Semester merkten, ...

These familiar words begin the classic poem that has become a staple of America's annual Christmas ritual along with Dickens's A Christmas Carol and Dr. Seuss's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. But how many people know anything about the origin and history of this enduring holiday favorite? In this engrossing, superbly researched, and beautifully illustrated book, Martin Gardner traces the beginnings of this beloved poem and its gradual rise to...

Based on extensive interviews with the survivng veterans, No Victory in Valhalla relives the dramatic struggle of the famed "Screaming Eagles" paratroopers in some of the toughest fighting of World War II. Famously profiled in Band of Brothers, the division as a whole was awarded Unit Citation for its heroic defense of Bastogne - a first in the history of the US armed forces.It's late November 1944, after 71 days fighting in Holland, and the 5...

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 defined the genre of popular mathematics writing for a generation. Flatland, Hydras and Eggs: Mathematical Mystifications is the final collection of these columns, covering the period roughly from 1979 to Gardners retirement in 1986. As always in his publish...

Piet Hein, dessen Etfmdungen auf dem Gebiet der unterhaltsamen Mathe­ matik mir oft Stoff fur meine Kolumne , , Mathematische Spiele" in der Zeit­ schrift "Scientific American" geliefert haben, ist in seiner Heimat Diinemark wohlbekannt. Er ist Autor auSerordentlich populiirer und anscheinend end­ loser Biicherserien mit kurzen epigrammatischen Gedichten, die er "Grooks" nennt, aIle in gefalligem Sill, geistreich und angefiillt mit den Kenntni...

Bei dem englischen Mathematiker john Edenser Littlewood steht in der Einleitung zu Mathematician's Miscellany, einer Sammlung mathematischer Miscellen, unter anderem der Satz: "Ein guter mathematischer Scherz ist immer besser - und zwar sogar als Mathematik besser - als ein ganzes Dutzend mittelmäßiger gelehrter Ab­ handlungen. " Mathematische Scherze bilden den Inhalt dieses Buches - wenn man großzügig ist und alles als Scherz gelten läßt, wa...

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The Marx Brothers' films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, economic conditions, literary subjects, and popular entertainment as satirized in the films and considers the ways in which they were relevant in their era.

One of the subject's clearest, most entertaining introductions offers lucid explanations of special and general theories of relativity, gravity, and spacetime, models of the universe, and more. 100 illustrations.

First published in 1983, this classic work by a consummate philosopher, thinker, and great mathematician is discussed alongside Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach." the work challenges the discerning reader with fundamental questions of classical philosophy and life's greater meanings.

Martin Gardner kombinasyon, geometri, aritmetik, mantik ve yöntem bulmacalarindan olusan bu derlemeyle, ilk bakista cözümü imkansiz görünen problemlere farkli bir acidanbakmayi öneriyor ve böylece insana Hah, buldum dedirten zihin sicramalariyla, kisa ve pratik cözümlere nasil ulasilabildiginigösteriyor. Scientific American dergisinde uzun yillar Matematik Oyuniari kösesini hazirlayan Gardnermatematigi genis kitlelere sevdiren onlarca kitabin ...

This collection of essays by America's foremost polymath delves into some of the many fascinating subjects in which Martin Gardner has had an abiding interest. Focusing primarily on literary and philosophical subjects, Order and Surprise is the sequel to the widely acclaimed Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. Some of Gardner's best essays and reviews are included in this volume, such as:"Why Librarians Dislike Oz"The Strange Case of Robert Maynard ...

For over fifty years Martin Gardner has been delighting readers with elegant, witty, and highly intelligent writing on an amazing array of topics. Best known for his works on popular science and mathematics, and as an incisive skeptical commentator on the paranormal, Gardner is also an accomplished writer of children's literature, a novelist, and a prolific essayist on religion, philosophy, and other issues. This new collection of Gardner gems...

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 updates on the latest developments and discoveries.

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.

Whether discussing hexaflexagons or number theory, Klein bottles or the essence of "nothing, " Martin Gardner has single-handedly created the field of "recreational mathematics." The Colossal Book of Mathematics collects together Gardner's most popular pieces from his legendary "Mathematical Games" column, which ran in Scientific American for twenty-five years. Gardner's array of absorbing puzzles and mind-twisting paradoxes opens mathematics ...

Cipher and decipher codes: transposition and polyalphabetical ciphers, famous codes, typewriter and telephone codes, codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks . . . even invisible writing and sending messages through space. 45 diagrams.

From math, science, and logic puzzlers to word games to what's-wrong-with-this-picture challenges. Cartoon illustrations give the book pick-me-up appeal, but it's the games themselves that will keep readers going as they match wits with Gardner, challenge their friends, or simply read along and look up the answers in the back."--"Booklist.

The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets.