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Undiluted hocus-pocus : the autobiography of Martin Gardner.
Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland. His informal, recreational approach to mathematics delighted countless r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland. His informal, recreational approach to mathematics delighted countless readers and inspired many to pursue careers in mathematics and the sciences. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a disarmingly candid self-portrait of the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our ""single brightest beacon"" for the defense of rationality and good science against my. |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1400847982 9781400847983 1299820956 9781299820951 |