books.google.co.uk - 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,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Unexpected_Hanging_and_Other_Mathema.html?id=nGN-SgAACAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Unexpected Hanging, and Other Mathematical Diversions
University of Chicago Press, 1969 - Mathematics - 263 pages
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
Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
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The Unexpected Hanging, and Other Mathematical Diversions: With a New Afterword and Expanded Bibliography Games: Mathematics
