by Martin Gardner · RBA. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447356027
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«Ruedas, vida y otras diversiones matemáticas» is Martin Gardner's popular mathematics book, published by RBA in hardback (273 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together a series of puzzles and pastimes about wheels, geometry and logic. Martin Gardner presents mathematical concepts with an accessible and playful approach, turning each problem into a stimulating challenge that invites reasoning and discovering the entertaining side of the discipline.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos collection; translation of the original Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements.
For fans of puzzles and mental challenges who want to see mathematics as a game and discover its most playful aspects.
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.
