In the first major revision of the text since 1946, Martin Gardner - the 'Mathematical Games' columnist for Scientific American and author of over 50 books and innumerable articles - has thoroughly updated the text to reflect recent developments...
For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and...
Over a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American , Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that...
Bei dem englischen Mathematiker John Edenser Littlewood steht in der Einleitung zu Mathematician's Miscellany, einer Sammlung mathematischer Miscellen, unter anderem der Satz: "Ein guter mathematischer Scherz ist immer besser - und zwar sogar...