by Martin Gardner · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447355853
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«Rosquillas anudadas» is Martin Gardner's recreational mathematics book, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardback (320 pages, in Spanish).
A collection of problems, paradoxes, and puzzles from recreational mathematics. Martin Gardner explores baffling coincidences that seem to defy the laws of probability and includes logic games, the binary Gray code, and the mysterious hexagrams of the I Ching, all presented in an engaging way to exercise the mind.
ISBN-10 8447355853. Published on 4 March 2008. The cover reproduces a quote from The Guardian praising the work as science communication.
For fans of riddles, logic, and recreational mathematics, and for those seeking an engaging introduction to science.
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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.
