Jinn from Hyperspace
And Other Scribblings--Both Serious and Whimsical
For over fifty years Martin Gardner has been delighting readers with elegant, witty, and highly intelligent writing on an amazing array of topics. Best known for his works on popular science and mathematics, and as an incisive skeptical commentator on the paranormal, Gardner is also an accomplished writer of children's literature, a novelist, and a prolific essayist on religion, philosophy, and other issues. This new collection of Gardner gems takes its name from an essay on a mathematical theme, about a jinn (or genie) trapped in a Klein Bottle—an amusing tale that also teaches the math phobic something interesting about a theoretical one-si…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59102-565-8
- EAN: 9781591025658
- Produktnummer: 20697285
- Verlag: Prometheus Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 307 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.4 cm 554 g
- Abbildungen: b/w illus
- Gewicht: 554
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Martin Gardner (1914 - 2010), the creator of Scientific American’s Mathematical Games column, which he wrote for more than twenty-five years, was the author of almost one hundred books, including The Annotated Night Before Christmas, The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner’s Favorite Poetic Parodies, From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr., and Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. For many years he was also a contributing editor to the Skeptical Inquirer.
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