MORE MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES AND DIVERSIONS
1963
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MORE MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES AND DIVERSIONS is a second collection of Martin Gardner's compulsive pozers from the Scientific American. From Diophantine brain-teasers to diabolic squares, these arithmetical, geometrical, logical, topological, mechanical, and probability problems are designed to beguile the weary leisure hours and sharpen blunted wits.
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Author
Martin Gardner
Author · 64 books
Martin Gardner was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, and published over 70 books.
