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47 Ebooks de Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner: Best Remembered Poems
The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear’s whimsical &qu …
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G. K. Chesterton: Coloured Lands
Enter into one of the twentieth century’s liveliest and most articulate minds with this long-unavailable book of delights. This jolly medley of drawings, fables, and poetry—all laced with satir …
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Martin Gardner: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
"Although we are amused, we may also be embarrassed to find our friends or even ourselves among the gullible advocates of plausible-sounding doubletalk." — Saturday Review"A very …
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Martin Gardner: Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles
Ready to have your mind boggled? World-famous puzzle master Martin Gardner has provided more than 100 ways to give your little gray cells a workout. These unusual puzzles, many of them original, incl …
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Martin Gardner: Mental Magic
A barber in Chicago says he’d rather cut the hair of ten red-headed men than the hair of one brown-haired man. Can you guess why?Ask Professor Picanumba, a master of riddles who carries dozens of sur …
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Martin Gardner: Famous Poems from Bygone Days
Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, from Hugh Antoine d’Arcy’s "The Face on the Barroom Floor" to Phila Henrietta Chase’s "Nobody’s Child, " rich in rhythm and r …
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Martin Gardner: Martin Gardner’s Science Magic
Make an eggshell turn a somersault, spin a coin so that it lands on "heads, " teach a bear to climb a string, and perform other acts of scientific wizardry! Martin Gardner, the master of ma …
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H. G. Wells: Country of the Blind
"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Or is he? In H. G. Wells’ acclaimed tale, a stranded mountaineer encounters an isolated society in which his apparent advantage prov …
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L. Frank Baum: Queen Zixi of Ix
When the renowned author of the wonderful Oz stories surpasses himself with a full-blown fairy tale, complete with magic wishes, palace life, an evil hag, and a poor boy and girl, we know we are in f …
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L. Frank Baum: Little Wizard Stories of Oz
After concluding the fourteenth volume of his popular series, L. Frank Baum returned to the land of Oz in 1914 with six short stories featuring Dorothy, Toto, and other beloved characters. Written fo …
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Martin Gardner: Relativity Simply Explained
Since the publication of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, the discovery of such astronomical phenomena as quasars, pulsars, and black holes — all intimately connected to relativ …
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Martin Gardner: Martin Gardner’s Table Magic
This excellent guide to mastering dozens of mystifying acts of deception and manipulation will soon have you dazzling friends and family with professional-quality magic tricks. Martin Gardner, author …
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Martin Gardner: Entertaining Science Experiments with Everyday Objects
To Martin Gardner, seeing is not just believing — it is understanding. This fundamental rule has made him one of the most successful teachers and popularizers of science in America. With the si …
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Martin Gardner: Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
"A fascinating, challenging book." ― A.L.A. Booklist Learn to use the most important codes and methods of secret communication in use since ancient times. Cipher and decipher codes us …
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Martin Gardner: My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
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 especial …
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Martin Gardner: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind-reading" tricks work? As a rule, we simply accept these tricks and "magic&qu …
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Pierre Berloquin: 100 Geometric Games
There are three loops in a tangle of rope. How many are independent, and how many are interlocked?Two knights stand on a chessboard. How many other knights must you add so that each square is occupie …
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Pierre Berloquin: 100 Numerical Games
Follow the hour hand and minute hand of a clock for 24 hours. How many times do they form a right angle?Timothy’s house has several rooms, each of which has an even number of doors, including doors t …
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Hugo Steinhaus: One Hundred Problems in Elementary Mathematics
Both a challenge to mathematically inclined readers and a useful supplementary text for high school and college courses, One Hundred Problems in Elementary Mathematics presents an instructive, stimul …
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Douglas Altman & Trevor Bryant: Statistics with Confidence
This highly popular introduction to confidence intervals has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It includes methods for using confidence intervals, with illustrative worked examples and extensive …
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Douglas Altman & Trevor Bryant: Statistics with Confidence
This highly popular introduction to confidence intervals has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It includes methods for using confidence intervals, with illustrative worked examples and extensive …
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Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham: Magical Mathematics
The mathematics behind some of the world’s most amazing card tricks Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks—and the profound mathematical ideas behind them—that will ast …
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Martin Gardner: Undiluted Hocus-Pocus
The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and science Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and publis …
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Martin Gardner: Universe in a Handkerchief
This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to impor …
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Martin Gardner: Last Recreations
Of all of Martin Gardner’s writings, none gained him a wider audience or was more central to his reputation than his Mathematical Recreations column in "Scientific American", which virtuall …
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Henry E. Dudeney: 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems
For two decades, self-taught mathematician Henry E. Dudeney wrote a puzzle page, "Perplexities, " for The Strand Magazine. Martin Gardner, longtime editor of Scientific American’s mathemati …
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Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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Martin Gardner: Gardner’s Workout
For many decades, Martin Gardner, the Grand Master of mathematical puzzles, has provided the tools and projects to furnish our all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout. Gardner’s problems fost …
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Martin Gardner: Mathematische Rätsel und Probleme
Der Begriff des Spieles, der die Unterhaltungs mathematik erst unter haltsam gestaltet, äußert sich in vielen Formen: ein Rätsel, das gelöst werden soll, ein Zweipersonenspiel, ein magischer Trick, …
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Martin Gardner: Das gespiegelte Universum
‘Das Jahr 1957 war vielleicht eines der aufregendsten in der Ge schichte der Kernphysik’ – so schreibt D. Y. Bugg in der Besprechung eines Buches über Betazerfall in The New Scientist am 16. August …
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Lewis Carroll: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)
The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner. For over hal …
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Martin Gardner: Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
‘[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit.’—Entertainment Weekly Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of …
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Martin Gardner: Los mágicos números del Doctor Matrix
‘Los números tienen vida por ellos solos, sería ingenuo pensar en ellos como un grupo de símbolos ordenados aleatoriamente’. Según el Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix, si se interpreta correctamente el númer …
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Martin Gardner: Enigmas de otros mundos
Disfruta de una compilación de enigmas matemáticos de culto firmada por el famoso divulgador científico Martin Gardner, que te atrapará y transportará a otros planetas y universos literarios. En home …
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Martin Gardner: Huevos, nudos y otros mitos
Durante más de tres décadas, Martin Gardner reinventó el género de las recreaciones matemáticas en su prestigiosa columna de juegos. El reconocido divulgador recoge aquí nuevos e intrincados desafíos …
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Martin Gardner: Damas, parábolas y más mistificaciones
¿Sabías que el juego de damas comenzó en el siglo XII en el sur de Francia, que lo juegan miles de personas en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos, pero con reglas diferentes a las usadas en Francia, Polonia …
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Martin Gardner: ¡Ajá! Paradojas que te hacen pensar
¿Qué pueden descubrirnos las paradojas? Este libro despertará tu mente y la volverá mucho más ágil. «La contribución de Gardner a la cultura intelectual contemporánea es única». Noam Chomsky Un lib …
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James F. Fixx: Juegos para súper inteligentes
En el mundo existen dos clases de personas: aquellas a quienes les encantan los acertijos y aquellas que no pueden soportarlos. Y es que los problemas intrincados pueden retar pero también molestar a …
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Martin Gardner: Secretos matemáticos de altos vuelos
¿Cuánto conocimiento matemático se puede almacenar dentro de un cubo? ¿Podemos obtener una obra artística de un cubo cualquiera? Uno de los grandes misterios de la humanidad es la construcción de la …
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Martin Gardner: Los enigmas del robot Farfel
¿Serás capaz de ayudar a los matemáticos Ray y Smull a resolver el problema de ajedrez que les propone Voz, la computadora de la nave espacial Bagel? ¿Cuánto medía el monstruo del lago de metano de T …
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