- Puzzles, Mathematical recreations, Science fiction, Miscellanea
By a mathematician famous for his "games" published regularly in "Scientific American", a series of 34 problems in the form of short science fiction stories published from 1976 in "Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine". The interesting part of these problems comes is that each is extended by a series of three answers, graded by comprehension. It is obvious that the first two do not bring the solution but can lead to it. Pleasant and instructive.
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Cool, plot-driven, warm and intimate.
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Martin Gardner
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, C. N. Potter
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781470451783
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“Dr. Ziege, the eminent German extraterrestrial geologist, was the first human to set foot on Capra, the fifth planet from the star Capella.”
Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. *-- Wikipedia*
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