by Martin Gardner · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474322637
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«Juegos. Los mágicos números del Dr. Matrix» is Martin Gardner's book of mathematical games, published by GEDISA in paperback (328 pages, Spanish).
The book brings together the author's encounters over twenty years with Dr. Matrix, an imaginary character who poses riddles and revelations based on numerology, the study of the mystical meaning of numbers. The exercises combine figures, magic and mental juggling, ideal for fans of recreational mathematics.
It belongs to the Educational Games collection, beginner level. Work originally published in English as The Magic Numbers of Dr Matrix.
Aimed at readers who enjoy numbers, riddles and recreational mathematics, from beginners to the curious.
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.
