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collection of “mathematical diversions” from Gardners legendary Scientific American column, from the years, The expectation that the diversionseeking reader will cut up paper shapes or paint wooden blocks as props possibly testifies to the paucity of recreational options during the period, but I found it interesting to consider the puzzles without actually making them.
Addenda at the end of each chapter add responses from readers and solutions to some of the problems, A lot have to do with patterns which can be generated by simple rules this predates Conways Game of Life, from, types of games and whether they are solvable either by hand or by computer, “mindreading tricks”, as well as areas of more serious mathematics which are simple to express, such as sitelinkEulers squares, a conjecture which was finally disproved in, and actually has an important practical application in experiment design discovered by R.
A. Fisher. Tercera recopilación de los pasatiempos matemáticos de martin Gardner en el Scientific American, Muy entretenida, con mucha variedad y con dificultad desde asequible algunos hasta doctorado, dependiendo de la profundidad con la que nos queramos meter en cada problema, Una gozada. Not as many engaging puzzles for me in this one, but I still like reading the collections, s/t: Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions An excellent compilation of recreatinal mathematics, puzzles, activities and theories that challenge your brain and teach you something new, It is very fun to go through the different games mentioned by the author if you like mathematics in any way, this is a must read, It's always hard for me to rate this kind of book, On one hand, I love mathematics and I believe everyone could benefit
from exercising their brains through numbers, word games or whatever else, On the other, I must not judge a book only because I like the overall subject and I've liked an author before,
This particular book has some things going for it: at the end of all chapters Gardner regales us with addenda, whether it's solutions sent to him by readers, alternative problems to solve or even new insights into the topics discussed.
The only bad thing about this particular book is that it's both too long and too short, The chapters tend to delve a bit too much into the topics, and at the same time there's not enough chapters, although the interested reader will get bang for their buck if they honestly try and solve/play with the problems presented here.
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 fromto, and published overbooks, .