by Martin Gardner · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474322613
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«Juegos y enigmas de otros mundos» is Martin Gardner's book of mathematical puzzles, published by Gedisa in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together riddles presented as science fiction and fantasy stories, often linked: one problem leads to another and that to a third. The work includes wordplay, palindromes, geometry, probability and magic squares, with nods to George Orwell, bamboo and the Fibonacci sequence.
Translation of the original «Puzzles from other worlds» by Margarita Mizraji. Martin Gardner wrote the «Juegos matemáticos» column for Scientific American between 1956 and 1986.
For readers interested in logic games and recreational mathematics, with graded challenges for experts, enthusiasts and beginners.
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.
