Mathematical magic showMartin Gardner
Mathematical magic show
more puzzles, games, diversions, illusions & other mathematical sleight-of-mind from Scientific American
by Martin Gardner · first published 1977
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On title page: More puzzles, games, diversions, illusions, & other mathematical sleight-of-mind from "Scientific American."
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…Huff, How to Lie With Statistics McGervey, Probabilities in Everyday Life Raymond Smullyan: The Lady or the Tiger, Alice in Puzzle-Land, others Anything by Martin Gardner. I happen to have picked up Mathematical Magic Show and Mathematical Circus, but I'm sure there are many other collections. I also recommend cryptography stuff. David Kahn's The Codebreakers is not really a math book, but it is awesome and it stars mathematicians,…
on “Ask HN: Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math?” ↗screwdriver head. perelman's "mathematics can be fun" has that and another couple of fun examples https://archive.org/details/MathematicsCanBeFun-Eng-YakovPer... i got a copy of that book and gardner's "mathematical magic show" when i was 12 or so, and they both continue to entertain and delight me.
on “Math and puzzle fans find magic in Martin Gardner's legacy” ↗