by Martin Gardner · Dunod · tapa dura · ISBN 9782040154103
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«Casse-tête dans le cosmos», by Martin Gardner, is a book of science fiction logic puzzles, published by Dunod in hardback, 146 pages, French.
Martin Gardner, famous for his game columns in Scientific American, brings together 34 logic puzzles set in science fiction stories, published since 1976 in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Each problem offers three graded series of answers to reach the solution, and the book opens with a foreword by Isaac Asimov.
The French edition, published in 1982 by Dunod, bears the subtitle «34 problèmes dans l'univers de la S.F.».
It is a suitable offering for fans of mathematical puzzles and classic science fiction.
Martin Gardner was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science. His interests also encompassed magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
