Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

by Martin Gardner and Martin Gardmer

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Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambling odds. "Gardner conjures problems that are both profound and silly; exquisite truths and outrageous absurdities; paradoxes, anagrams, palindromes and party tricks...He knows, better than most, how many amazing true things there are in the world."--Newsweek
  • ISBN10 067121425X
  • ISBN13 9780671214258
  • Publish Date 1 November 1972
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 February 2021
  • Imprint Holiday House
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Language English