Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486152901 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
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. Includes 89 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486318923 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
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.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486801179 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
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. 135 illustrations.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: American Mathematical Soc. ISBN: 147046358X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 302
Book Description
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, first published in 1977, contains columns published in the magazine from 1965-1968. This 1990 MAA edition contains a foreword by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham and a postscript and extended bibliography added by Gardner for this edition.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486131629 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
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.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691169691 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and science 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. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality and good science against mysticism and anti-intellectualism. Gardner takes readers from his childhood in Oklahoma to his varied and wide-ranging professional pursuits. He shares colorful anecdotes about the many fascinating people he met and mentored, and voices strong opinions on the subjects that matter to him most, from his love of mathematics to his uncompromising stance against pseudoscience. For Gardner, our mathematically structured universe is undiluted hocus-pocus—a marvelous enigma, in other words. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus offers a rare, intimate look at Gardner’s life and work, and the experiences that shaped both.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402722202 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
Relying on the remarkable forces of science and nature, this material offers great ideas for performing illusions, magic tricks, and experiments.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393020236 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 748
Book Description
No amateur or math authority can be without this ultimate compendium of classic puzzles, paradoxes, and puzzles from America's best-loved mathematical expert. 320 line drawings.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: American Mathematical Soc. ISBN: 147046361X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume is a collection of Irving Joshua Matrix columns published in the magazine from 1960-1980. There were several collections of Dr. Matrix, the first in 1967; they were revised as Gardner reconnected with the good doctor over the years. This is the 1985 Prometheus Books edition and contains all the Dr. Matrix columns from the magazine.
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Author: Martin Gardner
Author: Martin Gardner
Author: Martin Gardner
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Author: Martin Gardner
Author: Martin Gardner
Author: Martin Gardner
Author: Martin Gardner
Author: Martin Gardner
Author: Martin Gardner