by Martin Gardner · LABOR · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433551177
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«Paradojas» («¡Ajá! Paradojas que hacen pensar») is Martin Gardner's collection of paradoxes, published by Labor in hardback (174 pages, in Spanish).
In this volume, Martin Gardner brings together logical and mathematical paradoxes presented as small puzzles. The seemingly contradictory situations invite readers to examine their own reasoning and to see how intuition can diverge from logic.
Originally published in English as «Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight» (1975). This Spanish edition was published in 1989.
For readers interested in puzzles, brain teasers, and paradoxes.
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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.
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