Libro Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner De Gardner, Martin ; Diaconis, Persi ; Randi, James

portada Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Martin Gardner

Epílogo de

James Randi

Prefacio de

Persi Diaconis

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780691169699

Categorías

Biografías de científicos y doctores
Matemáticas populares y recreativas
Sudoku y rompecabezas matemáticos

Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (Autor) · James Randi (Epílogo de) · Persi Diaconis (Prefacio de) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality and good science against mysticism and anti-intellectualism. Gardner takes readers from his childhood in Oklahoma to his varied and wide-ranging professional pursuits. He shares colorful anecdotes about the many fascinating people he met and mentored, and voices strong opinions on the subjects that matter to him most, from his love of mathematics to his uncompromising stance against pseudoscience. For Gardner, our mathematically structured universe is undiluted hocus-pocus--a marvelous enigma, in other words. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus offers a rare, intimate look at Gardner's life and work, and the experiences that shaped both.