Synopses & Reviews
Breathe deep! It is you who will perform the feats in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Circus. This is the ninth gathering of his incomparable mathematical diversions from Scientific American; he lures you in with a chapter of irresistable Optical Illusions and in no time you're happily teetering on a mathematical high wire. Here are puzzles and paradoxes, games and entertainments of every kind, ranging from the swift and simple (including a few that are pure tease) to the mind-boggling.