Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements

by Martin Gardner

Paper Book, 1985

Status

Available

Call number

793.7

Series

Mathematical Games (10)

Tags

Martin Gardner

Genres

Collection

Puzzles & Mathematical Recreations

Publication

W.H. Freeman & Company (1985), Paperback, 261 pages

Description

'Martin Gardner is an amateur magician, but, putting in the shade all his sleight-of-hand, is the magic whereby he can take any mathematical subject and make it impossible for me to stop reading till he stops writing- whether I know anything about the subject to begin with or not. And when he does stop, I complain. In WHEELS, the prestidigistating master is better than ever.' -Isaac Asimov

User reviews

LibraryThing member Razinha
Not as many of interest to me in this one. I programmed Life in BASIC back in 1977, and moved on after the curiosity wore off - plus I had my fill with Wolfram in his tome. And...we ran through NIM stuff around the same time, so less interested now. Chess problems...cool. Geometry. Cards. Lots of
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 puzzles... And no matter how much I read of his, I can never fathom the resources he had. Obscure texts, mainstream journals...in a pre-Internet ubiquitously available age. Amazing.
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Subjects

Mathematical recreations

Language

English

Original publication date

1983

Physical description

261 p.; 9.22 inches

ISBN

0716715899 / 9780716715894

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