The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

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By Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner, renowned for his long-standing contributions to Scientific American, presents a collection of short and inventive puzzles and problems. Spanning physics, probability, topology, and chess, these puzzles range from easy to challenging and are grouped by subject. This volume, complementing The Colossal Book of Mathematics, includes over 300 illustrations and nine new puzzles gathered by Gardner over the last decade. It stands as a testament to his seventy-year career in popular mathematics.
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Ideal for amateur and expert maths enthusiasts who appreciate witty, elegant explorations and enjoy challenging their problem-solving skills.

Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner's immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master.

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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 savour 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 lengthier, more involved problems in The Colossal Book of Mathematics, have been selected by Gardner for their illuminating—and often bewildering—solutions.

Filled with over 300 illustrations, this new volume even contains nine new mathematical gems that Gardner, now ninety, has been gathering for the last decade. No amateur or expert math lover should be without this indispensable volume—a capstone to Gardner's seventy-year career.

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"A remarkable retrospective of [Gardner's] astonishingly influential career as an expositor extraordinaire."

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ISBN: 9780393061147

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 December 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Illustration: 308 illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Dana Richards

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 993g

Pages: 512

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About the Author

Martin Gardner (1914-2010) is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Lewis Carroll and his work. The author of more than a hundred books, he wrote the "Mathematical Games" column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and has been hailed by Douglas Hofstadter as "one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century."

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