| Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-Of-Mind from Scientific American |  | Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Random House Inc (P)
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Sales Rank: 1030134
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed
Pages: 284
ISBN: 0394726235
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.74
EAN: 9780394726236
ASIN: 0394726235
Publication Date: October 1978
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A Classic of a previous age January 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first read this I had no idea that he was starting
a type of writing that would catch on. Reading :"Archimedes' Revenge"
by Paul Hoffman, I realized that he was using the same techniques that Martin Gardner had.
One of Hoffman's examples is the same Möbius band in a new context.
The perfect numbers are also in both books as well as a section on
strange tiling effects. That the Harter -Heighway dragon was introduced
here as well makes the book a classic of the last age of mathematical innocence,
before mathematical genealogy took over.
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