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Praise for Martin Gardner
Gardner is the crown prince of science….His Mathematical Games column in Scientific America is one of the few bridges over C. P. Snow’s famous “gulf of mutual incomprehension” that lies between the technical and literary cultures.----Time Magazine
Gardner’s monthly romp through recreational math and logic ran in Scientific American for 25 years, from the Sputnik splash to the Reagan reign, and nobody has been able to match it since. “Mathematical Games” was an orgy of right-brain tomfoolery that could be approached for superficial fun or deep insight or both at the same time….I can’t think of a better present for a clever 12-year old, bored undergraduate, restless retiree, or stay-at-home parent facing intellectual stagnation. ----David Brooks, The Telegraph
Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games
The Entire Collection of his Scientific American Columns on one CD
Special sale price for this CD: $39.95, marked down from $69.95This CD contains all of Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games books in a searchable database. A profile and interview with Martin Gardner included on the CD.
This CD is a collection of the 15 books that contain the "Mathematical Game" columns that ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. Martin Gardner has inspired and enlightened generations with the delights of mathematical recreations, the amazing phenomena of numbers, magic, puzzles and the play of ideas. He has been the premier writer on recreational mathematics, and a great popularize of science.
ISBN: 9780-88385-545-4
Catalog Code: TDG/MA
Marked down from: List: $69.95 MAA Member: $55.95 to $39.95
Series: Spectrum
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Jointly with Cambridge University, the MAA is reissuing all 15 of the volumes that carried the Mathematical Games columns that ran in Scientific American Magazine. These volumes will be issued as part of the Martin Gardner New Mathematical Library. Three volumes have been published thus far, with updates to all of the chapters, including new game variations, proofs, and other developments and discoveries.
Hexaflexagons, Probability, Paradoxes and the Tower of Hanoi:
Martin Gardner’s First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games
The Martin Gardner New Mathematical Library, Vol. 1
The first volume in the Martin Gardner New Mathematical Library contains the earliest of Gardner’s Scientific American columns includes chapters on paradoxes and paper-folding, Mobius variations and mnemonics, fallacies, magic squares, topological curiosities, parlor tricks, and games ancient and modern, from Polyominoes, Nim, Hex, and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensional ticktacktoe. These mathematical recreations will delight and perplex while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry and other fields of mathematics.
Catalog Code: MGL-01
ISBN: 9780-521-73525-4
208 pp., Paperbound, 2008
List: $16.99
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Jointly with Cambridge University, the MAA is reissuing all 15 of the volumes that carried the Mathematical Games columns that ran in Scientific American Magazine.
Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube
Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Diversions
The Martin Gardner New Mathematical Library, Vol. 2
In the second volume in Gardner’s New Mathematical Library, readers are introduced to the Generalized Ham Sandwich Theorem, origami, digital roots, magic squares, the mathematics of cooling coffee, the induction game of Eleusis and more.
Catalog Code: MGL-02
ISBN: 9780-521-73524-7
248 pp., Paperbound, 2008
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Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi
Martin Gardner’s New Mathematical Diversions
In the third volume in Gardner’s New Mathematical Library, you can read about Knuth’s Word Ladders program, and the latest developments in the digits of pi. These timeless puzzles will charm readers while demonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry and other fields of mathematics.
Catalog Code: MGL-03
ISBN: 9780-521-74701-1
248 pp., Paperbound, 2008
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aha!
aha! Insight and aha! Gotcha
A two-volume collection
Martin Gardner
A terrific value, aha! Insight & aha! Gotcha are here combined as a single volume. Included are 144 wonderful puzzles ranging over geometry, logic probability, statistics, number, time, combinatorics and word play. Gardner tells us: "Aha! problems seem difficult and indeed are difficult if you go about trying to solve them in traditional ways. But if you can free your mind from standard problem solving techniques, you may be receptive to an aha! reaction that leads immediately to a solution. Don’t be discouraged!"
Catalog Code: MGL-03
ISBN: 9780-88385-551-5
280 pp., Paperbound, 2008
Sale Price: List: $45.95 MAA Member: $35.00
Series: Spectrum
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