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For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations in physics, probability, topology, and chess, among others. Grouped by subject and arrayed from easiest to hardest, the puzzles gathered here, which complement the len...

In addressing the changing field of multilingualism, this volume hopes to focus on research on multilingualism which incorporates critical, interpretive perspectives and exemplify the range of approaches to description and analysis which are employed within this strand of research on multilingualism.

In this exciting work, the author presents us a series of riddles in the form of science-fiction or fantasy stories. Almost all of them take us to a related second problem that generally takes us to a third and, occasionally, to a fourth. Definitively, they are a real challenge to our creativity.

Mucho podemos aprender de las paradojas. Al igual que los buenos trucos de ilusionismo, nos causan tanto asombro que inmediatamente queremos saber cómo se han hecho. Los ilusionistas no revelan jamás cómo hacen lo que hacen, pero los matemáticos no tienen necesidad de guardar el secreto. Las matemáticas no solo pueden ser divertidas, sino que encierran una fabulosa mezcla de sorpresa y de aprendizaje. Nunca se olvidará de ello si se asoma a lo...

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In addressing the changing field of multilingualism, the aims of this volume are: to focus on cutting edge research on multilingualism which incorporates critical, interpretive perspectives to exemplify the range of approaches to description and analysis which are currently employed within this strand of research on multilingualism to consider the methodological issues which arise in particular kinds of studies in particular sociolinguistic sp...

The latest on packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, digits of pi, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll.

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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.

Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bad science. Gardner's funny, brilliantly unsettling exposés of reflexology and urine therapy should be required reading for anyon...

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 ways of finding the digits of pi, and much much more.

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New twists on the hangman's paradox, cat's cradle, gambling, peg solitaire, pi and e, with updates on all the latest developments and discoveries.

The second of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.

A thoroughly updated edition of the second book of Gardner's enormously popular Scientific American columns.

The first of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.

The first of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.

Martin Gardner-"one of the most brilliant men and gracious writers I have ever known, " wrote Stephen Jay Gould-is the wittiest, most devastating debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery of our time. In this new book Gardner explores startling scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backwards. Armed with his expert, skeptical eye, he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudian...

At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber skeptical books by more than a thousand to one, Americans need a voice of sanity.Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic introduces readers to mind-wrenching probability paradoxes, recent attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson's success promoting The Course of Miracles, whi...

This classic collection examines the rich and hilarious variety of pseudoscientific conjecture that dominates the media. Witty pieces address the evidence for ESP, psychokinesis, faith healing, and a variety of pseudosciences. Included are readers' letters and Gardner's replies.