You'll never tire of thumbing through this book from time to time and trying some of the author's "magic" on yourself and/or your friends. It's the kind of book you'd buy as a gift for your child or grand-child--after you've read it for yourself first, of course! It's a "keepsake" sort of volume that will never grow tiresome.

This book is very nice. It teaches you how to do magic with any houshold items. There are 2 chapters with cards too. NONE of the tricks described here use any sort of slight of hand. It is 100% mathematical tricks than ANYONE can do. And they are all nice cloe-up tricks which are the type of tricks which are most baffling. Martin Garder, the author of this book is a very talented writer. He wrote many books on mathematics and science. This is a great book and I recomend EVERYONE should get it even if they are not into magic that much.

Martin Gardner avoids questionable psychoanalyticinterpretations, and instead describes the objects ofCarroll's satire that have been forgotten since the Victorian era. His notes allow us to fully enjoy Lewis Carroll's humor, and to see why Alice was so loved by children then (and by mathematicians now).

Highly recommended even for seasoned IP litigators; although this is a casebook, it has very thoughtful notes reminiscent of Hart & Wechsler's Fed. Courts casebook.

I would be thoroughly justified in causing my online thesaurus to heat up and spout smoke from my searching for new superlatives to describe the mathematical writing of Martin Gardner. His problems and puzzles have been a constant source of interest and entertainment from the first time I encountered them decades ago, and this collection is more of the same. These thirty six puzzles were first published in Gardner's regular column that used to appear in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which is where I first read them.
Gardner has been quoted as saying that the reason that he does so well in writing about mathematics is that he really doesn't know that much about it. I consider this his only serious published mistake. He has shown an amazing depth of understanding of most areas of mathematics, which is necessary for one to write about it so well.
These puzzles cover the usual broad spectrum of a Gardner collection, everything from the 'magic' of numbers to encounters with bizarre aliens is the setting for a puzzle. Detailed solutions to all are included, some of which are in serial form, with answer number one raising a question solved in answer two, sometimes all the way to answer four.
No one has done more to make mathematics interesting and palatable to the general public than Martin Gardner. Whether he is writing problems or puzzles, he is capable of turning a math problem into a story or a story into a math problem. If he were ever to grab a piece of chalk and start teaching, he would put the rest of us to shame.

In 1998 this widely loved classic was reissued, with an afterword by the author and updated references, with the title HEXAFLEXAGONS AND OTHER MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS :
THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN BOOK OF PUZZLES AND GAMES.

Martin Gardner comes through again with a great book of puzzles. There is a lot of material here to keep you thinking for quite a while. One of the better book of puzzles I have seen.

Steve Allen "takes no prisoners" as he reveals to readers what the Bible teaches and how those teachings have profound implications for Western Civilization and the Judeo-Christian foundation that defines and shapes its moral code.

Not for those into "light reading" or those not wishing to take a critical look at the Bible and its teachings.

Alle psychologische scholen na het structuralisme hebben zich op een of andere wijze tegen dat structuralisme gekant

This book is another great collection of problems, discussions, and mathematical curiosities from Martin Gardner - and one of his best.

In this book, Martin Gardner has assembled an absorbing discussion on the theoretical aspects and possibility of time travel, including the many paradoxes that may arise; two problem collections to give to try out yourself and give to your friends; two chapters on tangrams and tiling each; along with 15 more chapters on interesting topics such as the melody-making machines, anamorphic art, block packing and more.

Particularly interesting are the chapters "Six Sensational Discoveries" and "Dodgem and Other Simple Games." The former is a collection of six April Fool's jokes he published in April of 1975. The latter is an extensive and occupying discussion of simple games that one can play with friends, along with winning strategies for some and just mathematical theories for others.

I strongly recommend this book for those interested in mathematical curiousities and the likeness. It is especially interesting for children of ages 6-12; they may not understand everything, but certain chapters they will remember and revisit forever!