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1) Codes, ciphers, and secret writing

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Archway Paperbacks

Pub. Date

c1972

Language

English

Description

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Explains in simple terms how to encode and decode messages in various ciphers, describes coding machines, and gives formulas for invisible ink.

2) Did Adam and Eve have navels?: discourses on reflexology, numerology, urine therapy, and other dubious subjects

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

W.W. Norton

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

3) The colossal book of short puzzles and problems: combinatorics, probability, algebra, geometry, topology, chess, logic, cryptarithms, wordplay, physics and other topics of recreational mathematics

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Norton

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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Grouped by subject and arrayed from easiest to hardest, the puzzles gathered here have been selected by Gardner for their illuminating--and often bewildering--solutions. Filled with over 300 illustrations.

4) Wheels, life, and other mathematical amusements

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

W.H. Freeman

Pub. Date

c1983

Language

English

5) The colossal book of mathematics: classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Norton

Pub. Date

c2001

Language

English

6) Penrose tiles to trapdoor ciphers

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Freeman

Pub. Date

c1989

Language

English

7) Time travel and other mathematical bewilderments

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

W.H. Freeman

Pub. Date

c1988

Language

English

8) Logic machines and diagrams

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

McGraw-Hill

Pub. Date

1958

Language

English

9) Knotted doughnuts and other mathematical entertainments

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

W.H. Freeman

Pub. Date

c1986

Language

English

10) Calculus made easy: being a very-simplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the differential calculus and the integral calculus

Author

Thompson, Silvanus P

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

1998

Language

English

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Updates the classic calculus primer.

11) 536 puzzles & curious problems

Author

Dudeney, Henry Ernest

Publisher

Scribner

Pub. Date

[1967]

Language

English

12) The annotated Alice: Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking glass

Author

Carroll, Lewis

Language

English

13) The annotated ancient mariner: The rime of the ancient mariner

Author

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Publisher

C. N. Potter

Pub. Date

[1965]

Language

English

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Martin Gardner

1) Codes, ciphers, and secret writing

2) Did Adam and Eve have navels?: discourses on reflexology, numerology, urine therapy, and other dubious subjects

3) The colossal book of short puzzles and problems: combinatorics, probability, algebra, geometry, topology, chess, logic, cryptarithms, wordplay, physics and other topics of recreational mathematics

4) Wheels, life, and other mathematical amusements

5) The colossal book of mathematics: classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics

6) Penrose tiles to trapdoor ciphers

7) Time travel and other mathematical bewilderments

8) Logic machines and diagrams

9) Knotted doughnuts and other mathematical entertainments

10) Calculus made easy: being a very-simplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the differential calculus and the integral calculus

11) 536 puzzles & curious problems

12) The annotated Alice: Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking glass

13) The annotated ancient mariner: The rime of the ancient mariner