The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

About this book

Seasoned with Gardners 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 Gardners 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